Your Tax Money At Resting! - Part 1 of 2
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We have all heard (one way or another) how "hard" our tax money is working. Of course, as it cannot be otherwise, such expressions change from country to country and typically each one of them expresses the same idea differently. The good news? It is only semantics. The bad news? It is true. How come? Keep reading...
Let us ask you this one. Do you believe that your tax money…
How To Lie: 05 - Limiting Choices
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This technique is based on the method of "guiding" the listener towards a pre-determined outcome. It is the same method that magicians use when they do card tricks where you must choose one. They, pre-determine in advance, which card you will choose. They do so by pretending to present a number of choices for you to choose from, when in reality they are stacking the deck in such a manner…
Means Testing - Part 2 of 2
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SUMMARY
Means testing for very poor people does not work because for a segment of them this raises their standards of living above the people residing in the next upper bracket. It doesn't work either for the very poor because it destroys the economy that would allow them to get out of poverty. This doesn't work either for the group of people within the middle bracket because it removes any and…
Means Testing - Part 1 of 2
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You deal with your government all the time. Part of your life is spent trying to get stuff from your government. When you approach this subject you definitively know that there will be bureaucracy involved. You also know that sooner or later for some reason and for some so-called "benefits" you will be asked to provide some sort of proof that you are below certain line of economic means. If…
Shit Matters - Failure Is Always An Option
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About a year or so ago, Bill of the Gates persuasion (the big honcho in charge of the Bill & Melinda Foundation) and former Microsoft CEO was all involved in judging the results of the "Reinvent the Toilet Fair" held in Seattle. Shit matters indeed!
INTRO
In this fair many contenders competed for juicy prizes of 100K, 60K, and two 40K USD. The toilets had to function and fulfil a series…
Schools Of Public Health Are Dangerous To Your Health - Part 4 of 4
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CRITICAL THINKING REDEFINED
These so-called "Schools" typically "encourage" students to "think critically". At first glance this seems good, but in order to fully understand what this means, we need to dig deeper. Typically what you will find in the courses provided by these so-called "Schools" are "integrative assignments" which require people to "think critically"… about a certain topic… which was previously presented. In other words, students are told in hushed…
Schools Of Public Health Are Dangerous To Your Health - Part 3 of 4
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THE ETHICS OF SPENDING
As a consequence of these "scientific truths" that these so-called "Schools" provide to governments, the outcome is inevitable: public spending goes up. This raises an interesting ethical problem which we loath to tackle, but we must.
Note: in general terms we work very hard not to cross over into the ethics field because we consider that ethics is a personal choice utterly irrelevant to the principles…
Schools Of Public Health Are Dangerous To Your Health - Part 2 of 4
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THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Going into specific details of what is called a "scientific method" would take us a great deal of writing and exposition. Thus, we can't do it. However, what we can do is to provide you with the abbreviated version, which is equally powerful. It goes like this:
- There must be independent confirmation of the experiment.
- There must be variables quantitatively (not qualitatively) measured.
- There must be significant…
Schools Of Public Health Are Dangerous To Your Health - Part 1 of 4
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In our little corner of the universe we have consistently blasted governments and with good reason. But let's face it. Governments are not the only culprits here. Besides them, we have a whole ecosystem of opportunistic organizations that provide logistical and academic support to socialist policies in many aspects of political life, the health care segment being one of the biggest.
And when we say "opportunistic" we use the term…