The Food and Drug Administration would have to spend a few years and thousands of human hours defining “natural” when it comes to food. And since most of what people want to avoid by eating "natural" food has no basis in science, the F.D.A. should not get involved.
Read MoreWe talk about property rights all of the time without ever mentioning the term “property rights.” Maybe it’s time we should start calling them by their name.
Read MoreHolodomor. It’s not a place in Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter’s world – it’s the name for the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine that killed 3.9 million people by one of history’s most prolific murderers – Joseph Stalin. At the time, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Russia and not going back to starve under Russian domination may be the reason that the Ukrainians fight so hard today.
Read MoreStates, cities and towns work hard to lure both large and small businesses to their area. There are numerous tools they employ including tax breaks, public/private partnerships, education policies that attract young people, available financing, fewer restrictive regulations, and friendly transportation policies. Unfortunately, they may not pay enough attention to the competing factors that drive businesses away.
Read MoreWe have a scarcity of writers like Tamar Haspel, a food writer, who apparently understands what many columnists, activists, and politicians do not. For a lot of big problems we face, like obesity, global climate change, and Putin, we have theories and ideas in research papers, but most of them don’t pan out. When science is working well, most studies will, or should, fall by the wayside (into trash heap) and only a few should make it to a policy, particularly a national policy.
Read MoreScience has been solving one problem only to have another, perhaps worse, thrust upon it. They are beginning to solve the problem of poor incentives leading to non-reproducible or even fraudulent papers at the same time as having Critical Theory thrust upon them which, ultimately, tends to reject science outright.
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