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Areas of Interest

 

Health Care Policy

Respiratory Care

 

Climate Change

 

Constitutional and Institutional Economics

 

Austrian Economics

You cannot "rationalize" what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called "truthization".  There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.  To improve the truth of our beliefs we must change our beliefs.  Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is necessarily a change.

Eliezer Yudkowsky,  Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risk

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance."

- Murray N. Rothbard, from The Libertarian Forum, Vol. II, No. I