Although we’ll never know exactly how many lives our masking and other social distancing saved from Covid, it is pretty sure that it saved over 30,000 lives from dying of the flu because the fatality rate from the flu dropped to…
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VAERS has reported a huge spike in vaccine-related deaths. Is VAERS overstating the risks?
My sister informed me that she and the people she trusts are worried about new data coming from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS, an official CDC database. There have been over 4,000 deaths within 30 days of…
Posted in Health
Bitcoin is not money. Therefore it cannot replace the dollar which IS money.
UPDATED on 4/24/21 Bitcoin is not money. There are three main functions of money: 1) a unit of account (a measurement of value); 2) a medium of exchange; and 3) a store of value. The most important and unique function of money…
Posted in Macro
The decline of news and news quality
Pew Research reported that “U.S. newspapers have shed half of their newsroom employees since 2008” While print news has lost 36,000 employees, other parts of “journalism” have only added 10,000 for a net loss of 26,000. The BLS predicts that…
Posted in Public Finance
Violence has been declining globally. Consider lynching in America.
Tuskegee University researchers looked for records of lynchings in newspapers published between 1882 – 1968 and generated this chart. The orange color are victims whose race is unknown. This isn’t a complete account of lynching victims. It is only a…
Posted in Violence & Peace
Do we have a responsibility to develop more millionaire superheroes?
Peter Singer’s book called The Life You Can Save is about one of his most famous thought experiments: Suppose on a walk you notice a young girl drowning in a lake. If you can swim, and you can save her…
Posted in Millionaire Superheroes, Philosophy and ethics
How social media technologies took advantage of our psychological weaknesses and created an accidental revolutionary movement.
Netflix has a great documentary called The Social Dilemma about how social media companies are using algorithms and artificial intelligence to manipulate and addict us in order to make money. They might not have developed artificial intelligence to the point…
Posted in Pence2018
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