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The Virtue of Treating People Like Animals: Why Human Health Care Should Mirror Veterinary Health Care
February 20, 2010
Shows that although veterinary and human medicine are extremely similar in terms of quality of care, the freer market for the former makes it substantially more affordable and accessible than the latter.
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Government-Run Health Care vs. the Hippocratic Oath
February 20, 2010
Identifies and concretizes various ways in which government interference in health care precludes doctors from honoring their promise to use their best judgment in treating their patients.
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The Missile Gap and the Morality Gap
January 21, 2010
In my post about the contradiction between the technological sophistication of the Burj Dubai and the primitive superstition on display in the mosque at its pinnacle, I argued that this disparity is another example of the general disparity in progress between science and morality. But what accounts for this gap?…
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The Towering Contradiction
January 18, 2010
[caption id="attachment_33190" align="alignright" width="300"] Image: Petter Palander[/caption] The beginning of the new year and decade bore witness to the opening of the world's newest tallest building: the Burj Dubai in the UAE. Like many other commentators, Landon Thomas of the New York Times noted the dire economic situation Dubai faces…
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'Doing Nothing' Is An Option
December 15, 2009
Remember when President Obama insisted that health care "reform" had to be done his way, and that doing nothing was "not an option"? Well, the American people disagree. In "Do Nothing, Majority Says" (Wall Street Journal, December 10, 2009), James Taranto notes a recent Fox News poll showing: While 41…
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Review: Red Hot Lies, by Christopher C. Horner
November 20, 2009
Daniel Wahl reviews Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed, by Christopher C. Horner.
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Review: Heaven and Earth, by Ian Plimer
November 20, 2009
Gus Van Horn reviews Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science, by Ian Plimer.
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What the “Affordable Health Care for America Act,” HR 3962, Actually Says
November 20, 2009
Asks ten crucial questions regarding the proposed law; examines what the proposed legislation actually says with respect to these questions; and evaluates the bill accordingly, showing that, if passed, it would massively expand government power over the health-care industry, virtually eliminate the remnants of freedom left in this market, and thus increase the U.S. government’s violations of individual rights by orders of magnitude.

Pharmacide: The Pharmaceutical Industry’s Self-Destructive Effort to Loot America
November 20, 2009
Provides an illuminating view of the pharmaceutical industry, showing that industry executives have advocated and continue to advocate rights-violating legislation through which the companies gain revenue taken coercively by the government from American taxpayers—and further showing that the pharmaceutical industry’s advocacy of such legislation is killing . . . the industry itself.
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Lin Gilbert's Rationing Story
November 12, 2009
Canadian Lin Gilbert tells of the wait she endured for over two years for her MRI and spine surgery, and the toll it took on her life: http://www.youtube.com/embed/9Kyoxy1ufhg In Canada, health care is never truly a "right". She was repeatedly told that she hadn't suffered for long enough to receive…
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