Paper summarizing B12 deficiency in vegetarian/vegan diets
A published paper finds that those eating vegetarian or vegan (or variations on that) must take vitamin B12 supplements.
Healthcare: Analysis of the 2014 ACA Act
I wrote this long paper in 2016, analyzing and explaining why ACA ObamaCare policies became unaffordable.
Climate, Public health: Eating meat will kill you and the climate
Widely reported junk science nutrition study says we must stop eating red meat to avoid T2D and save the climate.
YouTube’s AI-based video recommendations skew, obviously, to what results in more views
The goal of Youtube, obviously, is to increase the percent of time you spend watching Youtube, and their ads every few minutes: New research published today by Mozilla backs that…
Chart of trend in published Covid-19 papers is now linear
https://twitter.com/RichardTol/status/1376078197117358085
Increases in student loan availability lead to increases in tuition and fees
Increases in student loan availability are a cause of tuition hikes rather than in response to tuition hikes. This effect is also seen in housing (cheap loans made widely available)…
The problems with models versus the real world
The problem with reliance on models and simulations: "Model-land is a hypothetical world in which our simulations are perfect, an attractive fairy-tale state of mind in which optimising a simulation…