Between 1974 and 2014, only 0.1% of publications in the top 50 economics journals were replication studies. That's 40 years. Thousands of papers. Almost none replicated. We've built careers on findings no one has verified. When economists finally replicate studies, 40-67% fail

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

The second worst part of the Iran strikes is we’re going to have a week of the most annoying WW3 memes known to man as the worlds most privileged people get to pretend to be the victims

"All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them." - Emma Goldman

"A standing army is a standing menace to liberty." - Voltairine de Cleyre

There's a reason this paper exists, you know

Hidden on page 744 of the farm bill the House Agriculture Committee passed Thursday is a provision that would condemn millions of pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates. Rebranded the 'Save Our Bacon Act,' it's a pork-industry play to wipe out every state law banning the sale of

Werner Herzog was on a podcast a few weeks ago defending piracy again: "Piracy is the most succesful form of distribution nowadays. So be it. But films are accessible and this is why very young people discover them" 🎙️ Freakonomics Radio Podcast Ep. 665

Eliminating animal products would allow us to feed the world with <1/4 of the land we use today, while cutting food emissions and water pollution in half. It would also eliminate two of the world’s most slavery-reliant industries: meat processing and commercial fishing.

“95% of species being hauled up were not the intended target of the fishery, yet nearly two thirds were kept regardless.”

bob's burgers urbanist 🐿️ I am familiar

The amount of fraud in education research at elite universities should get way more attention

Efficient capital allocators for AI are just MBA grads ignoring VaR, y=100x linregging, and memeposting

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar

This is shocking: the House Rules Committee just blocked a vote on stripping the Save Our Bacon Act from the farm bill. The SOB Act, buried deep in the farm bill, would wipe out state bans on pork from crated pigs, condemning millions to a lifetime in gestation crates. We were

Imagine being a person who advocates for animals to suffer immensely and unnecessarily

Non-vegan leftists hate veganism because it's the one "morally correct" position you actually have to put effort into and can't just virtue signal (ie anti-fascism, anti-billionaire, anti-racism pro-LGBTQ).

State socialism embraced the efficiency and scale of factory farming, causing the exact same harms to animals and the environment that capitalist animal ag does. There's a book about this:

Additionally - make prices less elastic when there aren't close substitutes - needs federal subsidies to meet demand - more zoonotic diseases - promotes future use of regulatory capture for big donors

When people say "ewww" at your meat substitutes while they literally have a tortured dead animal on their plate