Category Archives: Dubious statistics

Is The IEA Too Optimistic About The Energy Transition?

The IAE says the Ukraine War and the energy crisis are speeding up the global energy transition, but a closer look shows there are reasons to be doubtful.

Scientist GM Is Not Impressed by Latest Preprint on Covid Lab Leak Hypothesis

Another dodgy Covid preprint gets way too much attention.

How Corporations “Get Away With Murder” to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity

Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are jacking up prices far beyond their cost increases.

The Sveriges Riksbank Counterfeit Nobel Award Goes to Bernanke et al. for the Wrong Model

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort

Book Excerpt: It’s Not Just Humans at Risk From Covid-19

To believe Covid-19 was engineered to target humans is to ignore its broad capacity for infecting other animals.

What Social Security Should Really Be Paying to Survive in This Economy

Inadequate cost of living adjustments are nevertheless giving Social Security gutters new talking points.

BMI: The Mismeasure of Weight and the Mistreatment of Obesity

Rigid definitions of obesity can both restrict care for some and produce unwarranted alarms for others.

What if Medicine Were Taught Like a Science, Part 2: The Diet-Heart Hypothesis and Cholesterol

How medical research walked back the strong claims for the role of cholesterol in heart disease, which in turn supported the use of statins.

Central Bank Myths Drag Down World Economy

Central bank dogma over inflation is pushing the world economy into recession, with many dire consequences for poorer countries.

Big Agriculture Casts Itself as Climate Champion Ahead of COP27

Critics say the US-led Aim4C coalition will sideline nature-friendly farming in favour of polluting status quo agriculture.

Satyajit Das: The Financial Party Is Coming to an Abrupt End

There seems to be no escape from looming economic and financial problems, but the officialdom will do it best to delay the reckoning.

The Inevitable Financial Crisis

We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.

Satyajit Das: Emerging Market Crisis Pathologies

Why emerging markets look set to suffer a world of hurt.

Gasoline Demand Destruction Accelerates Despite Plunge in Prices: Consumption Drops to August 1997 Level

Gasoline purchases show a softening economy, but the Fed is likely to ignore that memo.