Public health authorities, the planners, recommend only modest amounts of Vitamin D, enough to prevent rickets. That’s true but misleading and contributes to public health disasters like the Covid 19 pandemic. It turns out...
Only 12 percent of American adults are metabolically healthy, study finds (ScienceDaily, November 28, 2018) When hundreds of millions across the U.S. and Europe suffer from chronic conditions caused by poor metabolic health, upper...
After months of national and state experiments with lockdowns, leading epidemiologists and public health officials call for shifted to “focused protection.” Better protect those at high risk (usually in elder care homes and with...
With 28 member countries and 446 million people, the European Union is, after China and India the next most populated region on Earth. The United States is next with 330 million people. Population size...
Consider arguments against government control of religion, education, and money. First, the Constitution prohibits the federal government from meddling in an “establishment of religion”: The First Amendment’s Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making any...
[June 5 update: energy policy topic chosen.] Ace Peak posted debate notes on the NCFCA policy resolution choices of immigration reform, FDA reform, and USFG energy policy reform. Economic Thinking workshops, blog posts, and...
Danish statistician Bjorn Lomborg’s TED2005 talk Global priorities bigger than climate change has nearly 1.5 million views. Commenters can critics disagree with Lomborg and argue climate change should be the biggest priority. Unlike many critics of...
The Winter Holidays Open in Zagreb features a final motion on environmental cost accounting: WHO 2018 FINAL MOTION: THW oblige companies to price in environmental burden in the cost of their products. An Investopedia post...
Brookings Institution’s Robert Litan offers A counterintuitive proposal for improving education and healing America: Debate-centered instruction (Brookings, September 27, 2018). Litan begins with a paragraph about current political and economic challenges then begins his...
Stoa’s three policy resolutions offered for 2018-19 are on the StoaUSA website: reforming international policy toward infectious diseases, international conventions on environmental issues, and reforming federal government foreign aid. The resolutions are interconnected as both...
