Tylenol Could Be Risky for Pregnant Women – A New Review of 25 Years of Research Finds Acetaminophen May Contribute to ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders in Children
New reasons to be wary of acetaminophen.
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How Autonomous Weapons Could Be More Destabilizing Than Nukes
Why autonomous weapons will make the world less safe.
Read more...Book Review: The Rise of Harm Reduction in the War on Drugs
Maia Szalavitz’s “Undoing Drugs” chronicles the growing harm reduction movement which prioritizes people in the battle against addiction.
Read more...How the Economics of Walking About Helps Predict Unemployment, or the Value of Soft Data
On the short-sightedness of over-reliance on hard data.
Read more...The Coming School Opening Covid Train Wreck
Covid warning for the fall: assume the brace position.
Read more...“Potentially Very Bad”: Lots of New Covid Variants in New York City Rats
The officialdom is ignoring a possible dire Covid risk if it materializes: new variants and mutations in rats jumping to humans.
Read more...Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Read more...Moving the Covid Vaccine Goalposts
The Covid propagation and vaccine news is not pointing to happy outcomes
Read more...Inflation Is Not What We Need to Worry About: the Risk of Major Collapse in the Private Sector Is What Should Be Troubling Us Right Now
Inflation may have you freaked out, but there are bigger threats on the horizon.
Read more...Covid Vaccine Whack-a-Mole?
Vaccine enthusiasm has blinded people who should know better to Covid downside risks. And as Taleb warned, tails are fat.
Read more...Is the Only Green Thing about Cannabis the Almighty Dollar?
Cannabis has an enormous carbon footprint when grown indoors, with a utopian proposal for growing it outdoors.
Read more...Known Stock Market Leverage Hits WTF High. Out the Other Side of Its Mouth, the Fed Warns About Hidden Leverage that Blew up Archegos
Stock margin debt is the visible tip of the iceberg of leverage, and it has been growing at a zoo-has-gone-nuts rate.
Read more...Biden Administration/CDC “Mission Accomplished” Mask Reversal: Hubris? Incompetence? Toadying to Business?
Why the policy-making part of the CDC should be burned to the ground: it’s highly politicized yet not very good at politics.
Read more...Bank Shot: Financial Giants’ Return to Manhattan Gives Smaller Businesses Hope
Some bank CEOs are telling their workers to return to the office in the next few months. If Covid stay tame, will other companies follow?
Read more...Fed Shamelessly Gives Warnings of Vague and Ominous Risks While Saying Don’t Expect Us to Do Anything About It
The Fed tells the world: Don’t expect us to be ready for the next financial crisis. It’s just too hard.
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