There has been a lot of debate about global warming this past year as temperatures have failed to rise. Of course climate is a complex topic and there are many factors that contribute to how warm or coool a particular year will be. Everything from sunspots to ocean currents have an important impact on global [...]
Global Cooling
The US Forever
I love America. I like western culture. I don’t ever want to be oppressed by people from another country. A long time ago I would have thought these thoughts and then moved on to playing a game or read a book. But unfortunately, now I am worried enough to shut down the Xbox360 and blog. [...]
Preventative Health? Time for new Measures
I recently canvassed several interns who are working on preventative health measures in D.C. and asked if there was any new ideas being tossed about. They said “No”. This got me thinking - with all the talk about preventing future illness, why are so few ideas tossed about in public? In order to get this [...]
Abstinence Only Education is Silly
The Bush administration stresses the importance of abstinence only education. Ignoring religious issues with premarital sex, does this policy have a chance of preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases? Any economist would say - NO!
Consider you have a child who wants to ride a bike. You can tell him he should not ride a [...]
The Demographer’s Folly
Author’s Note: I have returned home from extended vacation and hope to begin frequent blogs again.
Alarmists have trumpeted the end of the world for many years. Now, a simple extrapolation of continued low fertility rates in Japan predict the last Japanese person will die around the year 2600 (give or take a few hundred years). [...]