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I understand why you don't like this comment. I don't understand why this is worth your commenting on but you're silent on the airing of somebody's dirty laundry between their deat…

Simply assuming that the proper allocation of resources is easy in this or any other industry is wishful thinking. If drugs have any substitutes the demand side already goes from e…

If a new drug isn't useful it doesn't matter if the manufacturer has exclusive rights to it. If people are buying/being prescribed drugs that don't improve their health that's a di…

My argument only requires that people own their own property/labor and have the freedom to trade those things with others. Without those freedoms we're in some dystopian/totalitari…

Governmental regulations (safety, etc.) make the cost of developing a new drug extraordinary. Without exclusive patents on the back end companies won't have a reason to foot the bi…

> ...we need businesses and executives to value purpose alongside profit. Profit is purpose. Profit means the value of the outputs of your business exceeds the value of its inputs.…

Clueless movements elect clueless representatives who mirror their clueless beliefs.

It absolutely makes a difference. There's no way to properly regulate an industry without understanding it. But like I said above, people don't care about fracking because they don…

Stop leaks in what process? Fracking or oil and natural gas production? Do you have some evidence that more methane is being released into the atmosphere during the weeks of fracki…

> Fracking involves drilling an oil or gas well vertically and then horizontally into a shale formation. No, that's a horizontal well. Vertical wells get fracked all the time. Non-…

> For example, would you start the y-axis on a graph of global temperature at –273.15°C (absolute zero) > This is a lazy statement Yes it is. > This is missing what the graph is tr…

There's your tax bracket and then there's what you actually pay after deductions, loopholes, etc. The common argument is that the 70% rate of the 1950's was never actually paid by …

That has to be the worst x-axis on a graph I've seen in a long time. The grid lines measure 0-10th, 20-30th, 40-50th, 60-70th, 80-90th, 95-99th, 99.99th, Top 400? That's atrocious,…

> Could you elaborate? The idea is that a good publishing record gives one better career prospects. By accepting and rejecting papers journals are giving a signal used by academia …

There are a couple of good graphs of the U.S. budget on wikipedia as well. Take a guess at what you think we spend (dollars and percent of budget) on major categories (defense, Soc…

If it's in an academic's employment contract that they don't get to keep the rights to their academic papers it means 1) they already got paid and 2) they can't give away work that…

> - Academics (most often publicly funded via grants and university salaries) do the work for free. This means the public is paying the academic to do the work, they're not doing i…

That "8 forms of capital" is kind of intersting, I'm not sure I agree with the overall analysis but it's close to a good model of economics. Take the Capital Pools & Flows chart an…

That's really cool, even if I never find a place to use it. Anyway you can still sort strings.

You're demonstrating why friendships are ending over politics.

Sometimes I feel weird coding zip codes as strings but this is a great example why. If my program ever treats a zip code like a number I would like it to throw an error. At least i…

I'm not sure if I'm understanding the map correctly: Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (literally the top of the list alphabetized by first name) spent $1.5 million on 9,576 ads, garnering …

I think the field has a cultural problem that's causing their data problem: impact is valued over empiricism.

If you look at the author's published papers[0] just about every one involves highly sensitive political and social topics. That means they're likely to be quoted outside of the fi…

Maybe I wasn't clear enough because I'm seeing a lot of the same comment here. At some point anybody who's producing statistics and projections has to decide what's more important …