Monthly Archives: April 2014

Buddha was pretty bad at predicting unintended consequences

Henry Hazlitt summarized all of economics by the notion that most people are bad at predicting unintended consequences. That idea is so important that I will link to a PDF of his book, and I will put that PDF in … Continue reading

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Science sometimes corrects itself, sometimes persists in error, and sometimes mutates into fake science

Dan Dediu and D. Robert Ladd argue in a 2007 paper for a causal relation between certain alleles (different forms of a gene) known to be related to brain growth and development and the existence of linguistic tone in languages—suggesting … Continue reading

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How the Military-Industrial Complex Strangles the USA

The blogger who calls himself “George Washington” has various literary defects, but often I cannot restrain myself from quoting him at length.   The following is from: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/war-destroying-economy.html If you are a regular reader, you have probably seen this already; … Continue reading

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The racketeers are always willing to lie to start new wars

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/04/iraq-war-propagandists-push-lies-urkaine-drum-confrontation-russia.html     Intelligence regarding Syria is arguably being manipulated even more blatantly than intelligence on Saddam and Iraq. Media coverage of Syria and Ukraine is as bad as it was of the Iraq war … or worse. Indeed, it is largely the same … Continue reading

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Israel’s behavior, as ignored by Caplan and Nowrasteh

  A challenge to open-borders advocates @Bryan_Caplan and @AlexNowrasteh Occam’s Razor cuts into the blogosphere with the following:

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