I can’t shake a cold; I’m supposed to be going on vacation in two days and the British spring has lasted all of 2 days.
But this made me laugh a lot this morning. The comments are particularly amusing. (HT CT.
Summary - Economist who thinks he was defamed by Levitt & Dubner because they criticised his […]
A debate on Free exchange has centred around the use of Economics 101 models, and a related threads at Jane Galt and Ezra Klein centre around the use of anecdote versus data.
The two are clearly connected. If the point in question can be iluminated by a simple model. An anecdote can crystallize it further.
A case […]
Who wants to liver forever?
Tim Worstall is irate because the Government appears to be suggesting that chocolate is sold in smaller sizes to tackle the obesity ‘crisis’.
He said that surveys and food production statistics suggested that total calorie intakes had not increased.
So, err, if calorie intake has not increased, it isn’t increased calorie intake causing the problem. It’s reduced […]
Last night, Newsnight featured a story by Guido Fawkes on bloggers vs Establishment News and included an exchange with Paxo, Michael White of the Guardian, and Guido himself (in an rather hilarious attempt at ‘anonymity’) - update here is the interview.
Guido’s believes that major broadcasters pussy-foot around politicians, in order to retain access and exclusive […]
trying to blog by email.
In the last part of his documentary, Adam Curtis completed his thesis illustrating how a particular idea of freedom (Berlin’s negative freedom) led to the pursuit of over-zealous policies in post-Communist Russia and Iraq.
The idea is fairly cogent; negative liberty, as pursued most vociferously by rigid libertarians, contends that ‘freedom from…’ is more important than […]
Was there ever a more appropriate title for Adam Curtis’ slickly edited follow up to the Power of Nightmares?
His thesis, that the failure of political society and democracy is due to our enthusiastic embrace of free markets and the hyper-rational seflish individual model of human behaviour, is so broad that one can’t say it’s either true or […]
A glance at the bookshelves reveals that baby-rearing theories change more often than the environment into which babies are born, and of course, far more frequently than humans evolve. Similarly there’s never a shortage of new investment guides from the latest tipsters. But just as bringing up a baby today should, fundamentally, be really no […]
The Times runs a story on the latest developments querying Burnham et al.
I’m one of the people that supported the study, not as a flawless piece of work, but as an important contribution to the study of mortality in post-invastion Iraq. The methodology - “proven” in epidemiological studies - was a useful one to adopt […]
I don’t eat much meat these days, not out of any moral objection, but mainly for health reasons. I also prefer food of better quality and good quality meat costs. If I had no choice of meat but for the water-injected mass-market dross that emerges from supermarket shelves, then I might even object to […]
