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Category Archives: Health
Democrats Are The Party Of The Disaffected
Comments to Steve Sailer: * “Hillary Campaigns to be America’s Third Black President” Modelling yourself after the only living two-term Democratic presidents seems wise, no? The high/low strategy of simultaneously appealing to affluent suburban whites and poor minorities wins elections, … Continue reading
How can we stop dumb people from driving?
Psychometrician Linda Gottfredson wrote in 2004: “IQ was the best predictor of the major cause of death, motor vehicle accidents. Vehicular death rates doubled and then tripled at successively lower IQ ranges (100–115, 85–100, 80–85; O’Toole, 1990).” Perhaps no drivers … Continue reading
Bennet Omalu: Don’t let kids play football
By Bennet Omalu We’ve known since 1964 that cigarette smoking is harmful to your health. We’ve known for more than 40 years that alcohol damages the developing brain of a child. We’ve known since the mid-1970s that asbestos causes cancer … Continue reading
Syrian Refugees Bringing Flesh-Eating Disease into U.S.?
Pretty sure my hippy friends are already busy crafting a homeopathic remedy that will keep us safe. From Breitbart: JERUSALEM – There is a risk that Middle Eastern refugees entering the U.S. could be infected with a flesh-eating disease that … Continue reading
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Race & Medicine
From NPR: “We’ve known for years that certain drugs don’t work on parts of our population,” says Sam Oh, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco Center for Genes, Environment and Health. […] “Only 2 percent of cancer … Continue reading
The Destructive Psychopath
Comment: Alcibiades went from city to city in the ancient world. In Sparta he was more Spartan than the Spartans. Changing his chameleon skin every time he moved somewhere else and betraying everyone he came in contact with. Alcibiades killed … Continue reading
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Different Diets Work Differently For Different People
Steve Sailer writes: The existence of human biodiversity shouldn’t be such a startling new insight, but I guess it is. It ought to be obvious by now that different people flourish or decay on different diets. And yet we constantly … Continue reading
College & Mental Health
Steve Sailer writes: Something I’ve noticed over the decades is that depression and other non-psychotic mental troubles are fairly common among college students. And a lot of the hate hoaxes seem to have roots in emotional difficulties that are tied … Continue reading
What’s the Average Credit Score of a Mass Shooter?
Steve Sailer writes: In a country that has hundreds of millions of guns lying around, it’s hard to stop a dedicated, competent individual with a long time horizon and no fear of death or prison from acquiring guns. But a … Continue reading
Steroids & Republicans
Comments to Steve Sailer: * I recall [Tom] Wolfe saying once that either in college or grad school, he roomed with one or two pre-med guys and they always had Gray’s Anatomy lying around. He said that he basically memorized … Continue reading
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