See "Scientism and Values", by Helmut Schoeck and James Wiggins [1].
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https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-disinte...
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/dont-wa...
https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/22/aclus-david-cole-respon...
https://aclu.procon.org/did-you-know/
The Rutherford Institute is better than the ACLU today:
As soon as the door opened, I ran as fast as I could to the computer department desk, near where laptops and tablets were on display. The sales associate, who I had seen the night before, when Touchpads were $299, said that they were sold out.
I later heard that if you bought it within 30 days before the fire sale, they would offer you a price-matching rebate.
I had already bought a $99 Touchpad at Wal-Mart around midnight that morning, and I got the last one in the store, right before someone else came looking for it.
People respond to incentives. This is axiomatic.
Those who would enforce socialistic policies, ignore this basic fact.
# define a // commentI have suffered from bone fractures 3 times, 2 spontaneously, and I was eventually diagnosed with osteomalacia at age 46.
I therefore take Vitamin D and Calcium supplements regularly.
My Z score was -5.0 four years ago, but after taking supplementation and Fosamax for several years, it was raised to -2.0.
You can send a 10TB hard drive faster by USPS than it would take to transmit across the internet.
They make it illegal for you to hire someone at a rate below the minimum wage, even if they agree to it.
They force unemployment of those with skills below the average minimum-wage employee's.
They pick an arbitrary minimum wage mandated by government fiat, instead of determined in the marketplace. Such an arbitrary wage suffers from the economic calculation problem, where rational allocation of goods is impossible without free markets and prices to communicate supply and demand.
Changes in the minimum wage affect other things, like the price of food in restaurants, in way which is nonlinear from the actual supply and demand of those goods and services. It's as though there is pressure for prices to move upwards or downwards in response to market conditions, but the minimum wage, or other prices directly affected by the minimum wage, are not allowed to respond to those market conditions, and so a shortage or oversupply occurs.
Let's ROC!!
Price caps, fee caps, rent caps, and "price gouging" bans produce shortages. [0]
This is an economic fact as strong as the law of gravity.
[0] https://fee.org/shows/audio/words-numbers/the-law-of-demandi...
Most people I worked with were Ph.D.s who didn't care about their degree or title. They were focused on technical problems and solutions. There was never a statement like "But (s)he doesn't have a degree in this-or-that."
Only insecure managers have ever raised the "degree" issue with me. One manager who stymied my career because I didn't have a degree, was later fired for making a commitment for which a Ph.D. was committed to do the work. The project was late or never completed. The Ph.D. was demoted, but the manager who committed to his work, and who hurt me earlier because I didn't have a degree, was fired. I thought that was Karma.
It should be doctor and patient's choice whether to use it.
The Lancet was forced to retract an article critical of hydroxychloroquine, dubbed "LancetGate". [1] [2] [3]
[1] https://audioboom.com/posts/7605833-lancetgate-illustrates-s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...
But on the regular SAT, I only achieved around 1300 total, and the math part was somewhere between 780-800 (did I have a bad day?).
I never completed college, but I have been successful nonetheless.
I think that there is more to one's ability than simply achievement test scores, grade point averages, or college degrees.