Study: Only Wealthiest and Best Educated Benefit from Mediterranean Diet
A large-scale, well designed study on the Mediterranean diet showed unexpectedly that social status matters, big time.
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Slugging It Out With a New Contender in the GMOs Debate
One of the big benefits claimed for GMOs may be false.
Read more...Climate Change: What Follows as US Surrenders Global Leadership Role?
Shell CEO calls on Trump not to renounce Paris climate accord, but if the US does, other efforts- e.g. Chinese, Indian– will loom larger.
Read more...Against False Arrogance of Economic Knowledge
The shortcomings of economic reasoning are well known, yet mainstream practitioners embrace and defend them.
Read more...The Mechanical Turn in Economics and Its Consequences
A historical discussion of the fondness of economics to envision economies as machines.
Read more...Persuasion: An Introduction
Understanding the drivers of persuasion and other influence techniques.
Read more...Lancet Study on Life Expectancy by 2030 Confirms Poor US Performance
A new Lancet study on life expectancy for 35 countries puts up big red flags for US performance.
Read more...Book Review: The Econocracy
The new book Econocracy describes how economics has become a narrow ideology with far too much power and what can be done about it
Read more...Greenland Ice Sheet Melting 600 Percent Faster Than Predicted by Current Models
The faster-than-expected melt of the Greenland ice sheet is yet another example of climate models proving to be too conservative.
Read more...Philip Pilkington: To What Extent Is Economics an Ideology and to What Extent Is It a Useful Theory?
Why economics is more like phrenology than physics.
Read more...Hospitalized Patients Treated by Female Doctors Show Lower Mortality
A JAMA article, based on a large, well-designed study, found that female doctors in hospitals saved more lives than men. The question is why
Read more...How What We Eat Has Changed
Quelle surprise! Americans eat too much!
Read more...The Econocracy: An Interview with Cahal Mora
The new book Econocracy describes how economics training discourages critical thinking, overreaches, overpromises, and underdelivers.
Read more...Macroeconomics in the Crossfire (Again)
Economists are finally ‘fessing up to the fact that macroeconomics was never all that good and has regressed in recent decades.
Read more...Trumpism Has Dealt a Mortal Blow to Orthodox Economics and ‘Social Science’
Why Trumpism caused mainstream ‘social science’ to fall like a house of cards.
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