So It’s A Bad Year For ‘Flu Then?
Duelling estimates of the infectivity and death rate from the coronavirus. In The Guardian we get one trying to straddle the differences:
There is...
Amazingly, Poor People Don’t Actually Want Health Insurance
The true measure of whether someone wants something is whether they'll pay for it out of their own resources. Given the resources they've got,...
The British State Plans The Number Of Doctors – About Half What We Need
The basic statist contention is that if we leave all the hard stuff to the really clever people who go into politics then we'll...
To Explain Rising Mortality Rates By The Change In Population
We've another report insisting that austerity is murdering us all in our beds. This not necessarily being quite the truth. For the claim actually...
Cause And Effect – Fast Food Outlets In Poor Areas Contra Rod Liddle
Contrary to the musings of Rod Liddle in the Sunday Times there is a cause and effect going on over the placings of fast...
CDC Says Abortion Rate Down Over Decade – Sex Education, Abortion Restrictions Both Involved
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released the abortion statistics for the US for the years up to 2015. These show both...
Michael Marmot Really Is A Card, Inn’ee?
Sir Michael Marmot is insistent that economic inequality leads to health inequality. Well, OK, perhaps it does. Marmot also adamantly refuses to consider that...
Instead Of Warren’s $100 Billion Opioids Plan Why Not Something That Works – Legalising...
Senator Elizabeth Warren is just licking her lips at being able to spend another $100 billion of our money. This time it's to solve...
Wealth Doesn’t Add To Lifespan
What has been found here is that greater wealth correlates with greater disability free lifespan. This is not the same as saying that greater...
As We’ve Been Saying, We Should Subsidise Vaping
The big question about vaping from a public health perspective is whether it reduces health problems or increases them? The more basic civil liberty...