Science & Technology
Science & Technology
The Health Care Bill: What HR 3200, 'America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,' Says
John David Lewis August 10, 2009
What does the bill, HR 3200, short-titled ‘‘America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009,” actually say about major health care issues? I here pose a few questions in no particular order, citing relevant passages and offering a brief evaluation after each set of passages. This bill is 1017 pages long.…
Reviews, Science & Technology
Review: The Box, by Marc Levinson
Heike Larson May 20, 2009
Heike Larson reviews The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
A Brief History of U.S. Farm Policy and the Need for Free-Market Agriculture
Monica Hughes May 20, 2009
Shows how the USDA has grown from a small, seemingly innocuous bureau promoting agricultural research to today’s freedom-thwarting, rights-violating, market-crushing behemoth.
History, Science & Technology
Energy at the Speed of Thought: The Original Alternative Energy Market
Alex Epstein May 20, 2009
Surveys the history of the U.S. energy industry, with special emphasis on oil as the lifeblood of the modern world and on freedom as the condition that enabled oilmen to make it flow.
Reviews, Science & Technology
Review: Concierge Medicine, by Steven D. Knope
Michael Garrett February 20, 2009
Michael Garrett, MD, reviews Concierge Medicine: A New System to Get the Best Healthcare, by Steven D. Knope, MD.
Science & Technology
Of Freedom and Fat: Why Anti-Obesity Laws Are Immoral
Stella Daily Zawistowski February 20, 2009
Discusses efforts at state and federal levels to put Americans on a collective diet by violating the rights of food producers, restaurateurs, and consumers.
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
Rational Science versus Sacrificial Politics
John David Lewis January 29, 2009
by John David Lewis and Paul Saunders The Obama administration continues to appoint radical environmentalists who want us to commit industrial suicide on behalf of nature. Meanwhile, top-rank scientists continue to renounce claims of a coming climate disaster. The latest scientist to voice his conclusions is retired senior NASA atmospheric…
Science & Technology
'Green' vs. Good
Craig Biddle January 9, 2009
Keith Lockitch of the Ayn Rand Institute has an excellent op-ed in today’s Washington Times titled “Environmental angst: Going ‘green’ doesn’t work.” Here’s an excerpt: Why is it that no matter what sacrifices you make to try to reduce your “environmental footprint,” it never seems to be enough? Well, consider…
Politics & Rights, Science & Technology
This is Your Future on 'Universal Healthcare'
Craig Biddle January 6, 2009
Paul Hsieh has an excellent op-ed titled “Universal healthcare and the waistline police” in the Jan 7 issue of the Christian Science Monitor. It begins: Imagine a country where the government regularly checks the waistlines of citizens over age 40. Anyone deemed too fat would be required to undergo diet…
Science & Technology
Errors in Inductive Reasoning
David Harriman November 20, 2008
Examines several illustrative cases in which scientists failed to employ the principles of inductive logic properly and thereby arrived at faulty conclusions.