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… For $48,000, down from $2 million two years ago and equivalent to the drop “from about the price of a luxury sedan to, well, the price of a slightly less luxurious nice car.”
Thus, we have a perfect example of the free market at work.
If the government had gotten involved to “usher the technology along,” [...]
Times columnist Ben Macintyre agrees with my previous posts on swine flu and its origins [link]:
“I once worked on a chicken farm. Actually ‘farm’ is far too gentle a word for the way these chickens were raised, and ‘factory’ sounds too clinical. This was the seventh circle of chicken hell, a clucking, stinking, filthy [...]
It’s not just destroying the
wealth of the middle class by precipitously devaluing their savings.
It’s also filled with germs that could spread the flu.
A new study published by an economist reports that scientists who criticize something that later turns out to be incorrect later experience the same reduction in citations as the scientists who postulated the incorrect theory in the first place. It could be that the scientist’s line of inquiry into the research subject (in this particular [...]
In response to my earlier swine flu post, I was asked if my solution to the problem of livestock-bred influenza is for everyone to become vegetarians. Yes, in a perfect world; but in the world we have, the best solution may be cultured meat (also known as in vitro meat). (Just ignoring the problem and [...]
What happens when a city passes a law that violates a state law– a state law which, in turn, violates federal law?
In a case that has “long legal battle” written all over it, Sausalito, California might just find out. It’s banned medical marijuana dispensaries, establishments approved by both state and city voters by referendum– a [...]
If it’s true that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a biodefense researcher at the Army’s Medical Research Center on Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, orchestrated the 2001 anthrax attacks to further his own career and funnel more federal funding toward the study of his speciality, anthrax– and to himself– it perfectly illustrates what I have previously said [...]
This is the conclusion of my two-part series discussing why science would be better if it left government funding behind. In the first post, I discussed why government should not be given control of scientists’ work, what government have done when they did have this control, what they will continue to do, and how [...]
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal government project allocation, and the power of money, is ever present, and is gravely to be regarded.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government should stay out of science completely. Science, scientists, taxpayers, and the world would be better off for it. Research scientists are usually [...]
Since 1906, the United States Department of Agriculture has employed more than 60 “tick riders,” federal workers who patrol the Texas-Mexico border on horseback and inspect cattle and livestock herds for signs of Mexican livestock and the resultant infestations of the “fever tick.”
Apparently the fever tick is a really bad thing that we don’t want [...]