A Misesian, Holistic MD
Health and Nutrition Secrets is a book by Russell L Blaylock, MD. Dr. Blaylock is a board-certified neurosurgeon who “has recently retired as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Mississippi. He has practiced neurosurgery for the past twenty-four years and runs a successful private nutritional practice.”
Paul Krugman and “Blob” Economics
I have no idea if Paul Krugman writes editorials for the New York Times, as well as his own columns. I do know that his excoriation of Europe’s governments in today’s missive is similar to an editorial that appeared last Friday attacking the European governments for not spending to Larry Summers’ liking.
The Miraculous Market
Mises Reviews Rothbard’s Man, Economy, and State
Down with the Lockean Proviso
My attention was recently called to Tibor Machan’s paper “Self-Ownership and the Lockean Proviso” (working paper version), which will be in his book The Promise of Liberty (Lexington, 2009). As noted in the Abstract, the paper argues as follows:
Revisiting Argumentation Ethics
Since 1988 I’ve been fascinated with Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s “argumentation ethics“ defense of libertarian rights. This was around the time I was exposed to the legal concept “estoppel” in a contracts law class, which I ended up using in my own arguments for libertarian rights.
Thomas Dorman, RIP
Thomas Dorman, MD, of the Paracelsus Clinic in Federal Way, Washington, died unexpectedly on Tuesday. He was 72. An international man and American patriot, Tom was born in British Kenya, where his father was a coffee merchant, who in WWII helped supply travel documents for Jews escaping the National Socialists. When Jomo Kenyatta came to power, they moved to Israel, where Tom attended high school and later served in a parachute regiment during the ’67 war. Tom went to university in Liverpool and medical school in Edinburgh, and practiced in Canada before moving to America.
Supporters of Capitalism Are Crazy, Says Harvard
Aggregating nonsense, and little else
Two articles from a recent edition of The Columbus Dispatch make use of meaningless aggregations. First off is the collective political force. A columnist writes, “But in November, voters elected a Democratic House and a Republican Senate to safeguard Ohio’s cashbox.” As if voters across the state conspired to split the Ohio legislature. Nonsense.