Thoughts from Richard Epstein on overregulation, and trying to solve it by worse regulation.
Category Archives: Health
Government Malnutrition Guidelines
Now they plan to tell us not to eat lean meat.
High-Fat Rodent Diets
Why they are not to be trusted:
So are the results telling us that the increasingly popular low carb high fat approach is wrong? That after all there’s no need for official bodies to perform a major U-turn? Not as far as I can tell. In fact it seems the rodent work is highly misleading. Not only are the so called ‘high fat diets’ they are fed nothing like the low carbohydrate diets any informed human would follow, but the animals have been selectively bred to ensure they become fat and diabetic on a high fat diet. This is not research, it is a rigged game.
I’m sure you’re as shocked as I am.
Heartless
A Michigan man walks from a hospital without a human heart.
I wonder how reliable that device is? Can it be maintained or repaired without shutting it down?
Whole Grains
No, the fact that they’re not as bad for you as refined grains doesn’t mean they’re good for you. This is a great example of nutrition junk science.
A Plague Of Dementia
If we don’t figure out how to treat it, that will be the consequence of an aging population.
The Federal Drinking Age
It’s long past time to abolish it. It was an idiotic idea from Elizabeth Dole, during the Reagan administration. It’s a major contributor to college binge drinking (and associated sexual regrets that some people want to redefine as rape).
The Anti-Biotic Drought
…is over?
The experimental drug, which was isolated from a sample of New England dirt, is called teixobactin. It hasn’t yet been tested in people, though it cured all mice infected with antibiotic-resistant staphylococci bacteria that usually kills 90 percent of the animals, according to a study published today in the journal Nature. Bacteria appear to have a particularly difficult time developing resistance to the drug, potentially overcoming a major problem with existing antibiotics.
They’re probably a little overoptimistic on that one, but it’s good news in the short run at least.
Eskimos And Nose Bleeds
What really causes heart attacks? An interesting thesis.
A New Amazon Review
Robert Graboyes, of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, notes the similarities between spaceflight and health care.