Many professions require lifelong learning to stay up to speed. At the same time, work experience is a valuable part of lifelong learning. I have heard middle-age tech workers complain of ageism, claiming they are laid off ahead of younger colleagues due to their age and higher pay. Likewise, I’ve heard older tech workers say…
Monday Links
- British patients are not grateful for the free care they receive from the NHS.
- Pfizer: antibiotic shortage could worsen syphilis epidemic. (NYT)
- Should you worry about “forever chemicals” in your drinking water?
- Turley to Zuckerberg: “Release the Facebook Files.”
- Evidence lacking that dietary supplements sharpen the mind.
- Negative results from Portugal’s experiment with decriminalization of drug use.
- Another article on drug shortages that fails to ask the obvious question: Why isn’t there a shortage of aspirin?
Covid Censorship Was Deadly
Twitter blacklisted Stanford physician and economist Jay Bhattacharya for showing Covid almost exclusively threatened the elderly, severely reducing the visibility of his tweets. When Stanford health policy scholar Scott Atlas began advising the White House, YouTube erased his most prominent video opposing lockdowns. Twitter banned Robert Malone, a pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology, for calling attention to the vaccines’ dangers. YouTube demonetized evolutionary biologist Bret Weinstein, who suggested the virus might be engineered and predicted vaccine-evading variants. And those are only a few examples.
Obamacare Doesn’t Want Competition from Better Insurance Plans
HHS, the Treasury Department and the Department of Labor issued proposed rules on Friday that clamp down on short-term limited duration health plans, which offer cheap but sparse coverage that Democrats deride as “junk insurance.” The rule, which is meant to protect consumers and bolster the Obamacare exchange, would overturn a 2018 Trump-era regulation and satisfies liberal lawmakers and patient groups who have demanded the administration act since its first days in the White House.