By Greg Scandlen It all began with a concept known as “Roemer’s Law.” If you ask anyone who has studied health economics or health policy in the last 50 years, “What is Roemer’s Law?” each will be able to tell …
Category: Education
Two Ways Our World Resembles “1984” – Foundation for Economic Education
Welcome to another edition of Friday’s Philosophical Foray beyond Healthcare. Today’s foray comes to us via a thoughtful article by Jon Miltimore, managing editor at Foundation for Economic Education. “Truth, we see, does not exist in Oceania, the totalitarian …
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The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative – Promoting the Education of American Civics
Civics is important because… “students need to know how to run the country before they run the country” – Richard Dreyfuss https://thedreyfussinitiative.org/
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Aim your baloney detector at the BS in health care – STAT
BS, what Princeton philosopher Harry Frankfurt once calleda “lack of connection to a concern with truth — this indifference to how things really are,” has probably been around since the beginning of language. Health care has an acute BS problem, …
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The Problem – Center For Humane Technology
The extractive attention economy is tearing apart our shared social fabric. The companies that created social media and mobile tech have benefited our lives enormously. But even with the best intentions, they are under intense pressure to compete for attention, …
Jordan Peterson Speech at the 2019 PragerU Summit – YouTube
“They say we’re made in the image of God, and it’s hard to say what that means; but it means in part to participate in the process of bringing the GOOD into being. And we can all do that, and …
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Scientists rise up against statistical significance
Our call to retire statistical significance and to use confidence intervals as compatibility intervals is not a panacea. Although it will eliminate many bad practices, it could well introduce new ones. Thus, monitoring the literature for statistical abuses should be …
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Annual Conference | Free Market Medical Association
Forum for Healthcare Freedom is proud to be a Mobile App & WiFi Sponsor for the 2019 Free Market Medical Association annual conference, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Dallas, TX. Since 2014, the mission of the …
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