Wonder Information Tag

… is from page 14 of the late, great Julian Simon’s Introduction to his brilliant 1995 edited volume, The State of Humanity: When considering the state of the environment, we should think first of the terrible pollutions that were banished in the past century or wo – the...

(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Editor: Government’s halting of J&J’s vaccine reflects a problem far deeper than the CDC’s and FDA’s seeking guidance from outside ‘experts’ (“Inoculating the Government,” April 21). This far-deeper problem is the obsessive focus on a single risk. For...

This Thursday, Earth Day, politicians and activists will shout more about “the climate crisis.” I don’t think it’s a crisis. COVID-19, malaria, exploding debt, millions of poor children dying from diarrhea — those are genuine crises. But global warming may become a real problem, so it’s particularly...

(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn response to my letter today to the Wall Street Journal, Washington University economist Ian Fillmore sent to me the following e-mail, which I share with his kind permission: Hi Don, Like you, I find the whole blood clot thing incredibly frustrating. But there is...