Not all journals, of course. But one is too many.
Bad behavior has consequences, except when you are a social media platform. But the number of peer-reviewed articles subsequently retracted raises the question of whether medical journals believe that they too are "platforms," without responsibility for what they publish and disseminate.
Yet another well-intentioned but now obsolete and costly Liberal policy that should stop.
Good: noted finance professors Aswath Damodaran and Bradford Cornell question the performance of ESG funds.
Good question.
See also "Heiresses on the Barricades: From Jane Fonda to Clara Kraebber, spoiled rich children find it easy to play at rebellion."
What may be coming--the past doesn't repeat but it rhymes--real soon.
I remember waiting in a huge line at my college for the shot when they handed out a paper listing possible side effects. There were many horrible effects listed. (With no probabilities attached, of course.) As this was my first time seeing such a warning, I got out of line and didn't get the shot.
I'm much older now and I've been given a number of such warnings. Heck, listen to ads for drugs on network TV in which they about half the ad listing all the terrible things that may happen if you take the drug. Again, with no probabilities of any kind given. Excuse me, but I think such "information" is worthless. Maybe worse than worthless.
A piece by noted economist John Cochrane that will ruin your week: maybe the slower growth of the last few decades is due to regulation. Even worse the market doesn't seem to be correcting it.
If all this adds up, though, it asks the question just why "policy-making" technocratic elite, who have been so wrong about so much for so long remain able to impose such things on the rest of us. Why are they so immune from competition?
By Malcolm Kendrick, Scottish doctor. Argues that a part of the imperfect COVID response is simply terminological confusion.
Why are these figures so all over the place? It is because we are using horribly inaccurate terminology. We are comparing apples with pomegranates to tell us how many bananas we have. Our experts are, essentially, talking gibberish, and the mainstream media is lapping it up. They are defining asymptomatic swabs as cases, and no-one is calling them out on it. Why?
See also this summary of an discussion with one Harvard and two Stanford professors.
Read if you want to know what sounds like a secret of academic--or at least, economics--publishing.
Great question: "So just what is a promise in business—and in politics too? Where do we draw the line between hyperbole and fraud?"
Get back to me ASAP with the answer.
Impressive, but if they are really the best of Pele, or close to his best, I'm sorry, but Leo is better.
That's a heckuva forecast.
Well, I had no idea.
Series at The Athletic. Gated, but if you have access, some excellent pieces. My favorites: "Willis Reed--NBA Finals, Game 7," "1986 World Series," and, of course, "28-3: told from both sides of the fence".
I recently discovered that I can watch Johnny Carson, free, around the clock. Sure, he had a some slow spots, but on average, his show was better than almost everything that's on now.
This is part of Shout Factory TV where you can also watch old Carol Burnett shows--not my taste, but lots of people loved her--the Marx Brothers TV collection, the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts, and much more.
They weren't all winners--Cyndi Lauper, ugh; Milli Vanilli, double ugh. But there were an awful lot of really good times then as this 4.5 minute nicely done video makes clear.
The Bangles, December 31, 1986.
Very interesting piece by noted historian Allan Guelzo.
I was interested in this because I've seen estimates ranging from 55 mg/day g/day (thanks, David!) to more than triple that. This site seems scientific.
Life in 2020 America.
An idea so crazy it just might work:
Why shouldn’t the teaching of literature be based on love, rather than on the skeptical approach or programmatic derision?
"Royalty Exchange is a marketplace where intellectual property is bought and sold like any other asset."
For example, ten years' of royalties for Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind" were auctioned off for $190,500.
Dr. Chai has my full support:
I know, people are going to come and make comments on this answer about how I am an evil, mean, bullying, old school, horrible person who should not even be a doctor. I get it. You do not want to be corrected. Would you rather feel the pain of someone telling you that you did something wrong today, or would you rather feel the pain of knowing you killed someone tomorrow? I will let you think about that. Think about it carefully.
Coming soon: NYC knocking on the door of the federal government, demanding money.
Interesting tale of a singularly weird part of modern physics.
Quite a sad finding, but Kyle Smith adds some good laughs to it.
You’ll notice that the pollsters almost always ask the American people opinion questions — are you feeling like more of a donkey or an elephant these days? — to which there are no wrong answers. Because when they ask questions to which there are wrong answers, boy, do they get a lot of them.