National Academies’ Report Took Pharma-Friendly Stance After Millions in Gifts From Drugmakers
The National Academy of Science has been caught out repeatedly for not disclosing Big Pharma ties as it issues cronyistic reports
Read more...Category Archives: Guest Post
Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman
Why Elon Musk, despite having built significant operating companies, is still mainly in the bezzle business.
Read more...Biden Must Call Off the B-52s Bombing Afghan Cities
The US is really bad at losing, as our (literal) parting shots at Afghan cities shows.
Read more...US History Shows Spending on Infrastructure Doesn’t Always End Well
Despite promoters’ claims, infrastructure projects often aren’t great public successes.
Read more...Key Takeaways From the New IPCC Report
A data-oriented overview of the IPCC report.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/11/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Links 8/11/2021
This Reddit Lament Sums Up Wonderfully What Lots of Home Buyers Will Grapple with as Housing Market “Normalizes” and Work from Home Fizzles
As Covid-exodus home purchases peters out, over-eager buyers are waking up with hangovers.
Read more...Pessimism, Cynicism & Realism, or the Edge of the Volcano
Accusations of pessimism (and why is pessimism bad anyhow?) is a cheap shot at well-founded criticism of Team Dem.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/10/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...Florida Red Tide: Who Will Fix This Mess?
Environmentalists decry the role of corporate polluters and the state of Florida in the state’s red tide mess.
Read more...IPCC Climate Report: Profound Changes Are Underway in Earth’s Oceans and Ice – A Lead Author Explains What the Warnings Mean
The latest IPCC report gives a Defcon 1 climate emergency alarm. But are any of the right people paying attention?
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-Seven: Despite Staggering Losses, the Uber Propaganda Train Keeps Rolling
How Uber keeps pumping hot air into a financially flaccid business.
Read more...The Best Policies to Fight Pandemics: Five Lessons from the Literature So Far
Mining various studies on pandemic interventions to see which look most effective.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 8/9/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Read more...