Health

Joshua Gottlieb is an economist who co-authored a recent paper examining the effect of government policy and physician income.

The "experts" intend to keep locking populations down again and again until there's a vaccine. But what if there's no vaccine coming?

A survey of the research shows that the science of mask wearing is hardly "settled." And this up-in-the-air nature of it all is a reminder of how immoral it is to impose mandates on people, backed with state violence.

Manny Sethi, a trauma surgeon running to be the next senator from the state of Tennessee, discusses his journey from medicine to politics, as well as his views on healthcare. 

FREOPP, a non-partisan think tank founded by Avik Roy recently released a plan for reopening schools. We discuss some of the data from around the globe, as well as practical considerations related to opening schools.

A survey of the research shows that the science of mask wearing is hardly "settled." And this up-in-the-air nature of it all is a reminder of how immoral it is to impose mandates on people, backed with state violence.

Every major scientific advance challenged the “settled science” of its day and was often denounced as pernicious and false, even dangerous.

Dr. Leamer is a Professor of Economics and Statistics at UCLA who comes on the show to discuss the recent arrival of econometric analyses in medicine. 

"Public health crisis" is essentially a left-wing stock phrase at this point, as is reflected by the fact that the solutions proffered to the social ills in question are virtually always some sort of government regulation or income redistribution scheme.

More threatened COVID lockdowns, and thus more bailouts and explosions of deficit spending, do not bode well for the global economy.