The modern Anti-Vaxxer movement of recent years traces its origins to a paper published in The Lancet in 1998 by (then Dr.)...
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This is the time of year when firms trot out their annual Year in Preview outlooks. These are counter-productive exercises for...
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I have been working on a post-2020 “Lessons for Investors” column, when I stumbled upon an interesting Nate...
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When I was young and broke, carrying undergrad/grad school loans, I lived in Manhattan — an expensive city I could barely...
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Source: Covid Tracking Project Some good and bad news this week in COVID-19. The three vaccine updates show real promise of...
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Today in wonky economic ephemera: This morning, Thom Keene was discussing the possibility of a slowdown, zero growth, or a...
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I have on occasion mentioned our tendency to combine hindsight bias and narrative fallacy in a way that is dangerous...
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I have always hated those red & blue election maps — they are a highly misleading model of reality for several reasons. First,...
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John Oliver discusses the crucial role of the World Health Organization, why Donald Trump is skeptical of it, and how his plans to...
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One of the biggest stories of 2020 is the rise of the Conspiracy theory. Only it is not really this year’s story, but...
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