Category: John C. Goodman
Wednesday Links
- Alcohol is really bad. HT: Tyler
- Could the common cold be a defense against Covid?
- Black families have been leaving the inner cities for decades.
- Why aren’t we developing more nasal vaccines?
- Pharmaceutical villain Martin Shkreli raised prices for drugs used to treat AIDS, malaria, and cancer by as much as 5,000 percent. That’s why Mark Cuban got into the business.
Tuesday Links
- Why Jackson Miss. doesn’t have water: they gave too much of it away for free.
- Why the prohibition on consuming raw milk from your own cow really matters.
- The latest fertility numbers. It takes 2.1 births per woman of child bearing age to replace a country’s population. Most developed countries are well below that.
- The downside of capping the price of insulin: it will encourage its use over newer, better, and more expensive alternative treatments. ”That will mean more disease, more disability, and more death from diabetes.”
Jackson’s Water Crisis; Krugman Off the Rails
Jackson, the state capital and largest Mississippi city, is run by Democrats. Its mayor and most of the city council members are Black. You may have read that the entire city is without safe drinking water, with no end in sight. The reason is well understood locally. The city is poorly run.