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Economics of Health Care
Nov 20 2007
Fortune Magazine reports on Al Gore joining the venture capital firm Kleiner-Perkins: "What we are going to have to put in place is a combination of the Manhattan Project, the Apollo project, and the Marshall Plan, and scale it globally," Gore continues. "It'd be promising too much to say we can do it on our own, but ...
Nov 20 2007
My latest essay tries to sort out the issues of race, IQ, and education. Earlier, I said that my preferred approach is individualism. To understand this approach, try this thought experiment: imagine if everyone suddenly were afflicted with group-identity amnesia. Group-identity amnesia would mean that each person ...
Nov 20 2007
Last year I argued that AIDS estimates were inflated. Now the UN has cut its estimate of the number infected by 40%. This is getting to be a pattern! HT: Tyler (who once said I was dead wrong about this...)
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Jim
Nov 20 2007 at 11:45am
“Now the UN has cut its estimate of the number infected by 40%.”
No, it’s cut the number of new infections per year by 40%, and the total number currently infected by much less. It’s also still talking about infection rates of one in four in the likes of Swaziland and Botswana, which you would agree is quite bad, would you not? And this news doesn’t mean we spend too much on aid for health in Africa, though some will probably try to spin it in that direction – with the best of intentions, of course …
General Specific
Nov 22 2007 at 2:17am
Can you provide us with examples in which you were dead wrong? I’m concerned you’re just overly-advertising your successes. Isn’t that a type of bias?
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