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Obamacare Predictions: Part II
Read Part I. I'll be away from the computer a large portion of today and will be slow in answering comments. Your health care will degrade Since the deficit will…
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Obamacare Predictions: Part I
Here are some things I think will happen if Obamacare is passed. When I say "you" or "your", I mean "people on average." Obviously, some people will benefit. This is…
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Pajamas Media: Sudden Acceleration or Creeping Fear?
Today's post is at Pajamas Media: Sudden Acceleration or Creeping Fear? Charlie Martin, now science and tech editor at Pajamas, asked me to look into the fatal accidents occurring in…
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Randomized Trials Are Not Needed
I promised this article a long time ago: I hope these well known calculations are enough to give the gist. Randomized controlled trials are supposed to be the gold standard…
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Obamacare: Sympathy for Homeopathy?
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine was tacked forcibly onto the National Institute of Health after Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) thought more attention ought to…
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Are All Governments Destined For Failure?
Here's an experiment you can try at home. Gather a set of children's building blocks and form them into a square, flat on the floor. The square can be of…
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Six-year-old Boy Holds Class Hostage, Uses Finger For Gun
The scene was tense Wednesday, 3 March, when Mason Jammer, a student at Jefferson Elementary in Ionia, Michigan held his kindergarten class hostage by fashioning his finger into the shape…
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Final Healthcare Showdown: Government vs. Liberty
There's Nancy Pelosi, Six Gun of State strapped to her side, the sun burning overhead. And there's you, armed only with Freedom, thirty paces off. It's a standoff! If you…
