Question 12

Question 12

A couple of articles obviously misquoting von Mises and Friedman, in order to denigrate them, raise questions. Is intense and heartfelt seriousness a substitute for truth?

There are 15.2 million Jews in the world, up from 15.1 million last year.
Of those, 6.9 million Jews live in Israel, up by one hundred thousand from the previous year, with another 8.3 million living around the world. So one of the most productive, intellectual, influential, and impactful peoples in the world is about the size of the population of Istanbul?

A new company, Altos, is pursuing biological reprogramming technology, a way to rejuvenate cells in the lab that some scientists think could be extended to revitalize entire animal bodies, ultimately prolonging human life. Bezos has put money in. Among the scientists said to be joining Altos are Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, a Spanish biologist at the Salk Institute, in La Jolla, California, who is notorious for research mixing human and monkey embryos. Wouldn't it be better to start out with someone other than a guy under an ethics cloud? Or is there no one else comparable?

Did the culture start to slide when hurricanes could no longer exclusively be named after women or was it when the zipper lost its patent?

The study showing the climate change argument on the origin of Covid was done entirely with models, no data. Are models facts?

A number of people in LA overdosed at a party and died this week. This was a newspaper line: "Police were called to the party just after midnight and pronounced Johnson and the two others, who may have also been comedians, dead at the scene." Does this mean comedians have become a species or something equally distinctive? Is this a new identity?

According to Stanford University, the infection survival rate for people under the age of 19 is 99.9973 percent. So, what is the source of the alarm over younger virus patients?

The 8,328 US affiliates of foreign multinational enterprises (MNEs) employed 7.95 million American workers in 2019, a 1.9% increase from 7.8 million workers in 2018, adding roughly 150,000 insourced jobs to the US economy in 2019. Were those American jobs stolen from foreign nations?

"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society".--Jefferson 

Is this a tough concept for the Left?

Atlantic hurricanes are not becoming more frequent. In fact, the frequency of hurricanes making landfall in the continental U.S. has declined slightly since 1900. The frequency Category 3 and above hurricanes making landfall since 1900 is also trending slightly down. Does this raise questions about global warming or does one just redo the models?

Editors of 220 leading medical, nursing, and public-health journals from around the world called for urgent action on climate change, in a joint editorial published on Sunday. Is that a consensus? All of the Russian scientists of the Stalinist era believed, or came to believe, that dialectic materialism was contained in all of modern science. Was that a consensus?

The federal government has announced they will guarantee abortion rights after the recent Supreme Court decision. They know the decision was not on 'Wade,' right? And they know that if it was, the administration could not change a judicial decision, right?

“The white British proportion of the population has fallen from 89 percent to 79 percent, while ethnic minorities have grown from 10 percent to 21 percent.” Lionel Shriver wrote this and followed with this, “Try reversing the paradigm. If white westerners were immigrating by the tens of millions to developing nations - if Liverpudlians were pouring into Lagos - the left would decry the mass migration as neocolonialism. Such white flight would be denounced as invasion - as it would be. Yet for today’s left, non-white cultures must be protected, preserved and promoted, while evil European cultures deserve to be subsumed.” So, does the Left view these changes as less the interesting but passive movement of peoples and more the desired replacement of another?

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a nonprofit trade group, said in a report last month that “changing resource mix” is the most urgent challenge for reliability. The group says America’s electric generation capacity “is increasingly characterized as one that is sensitive to extreme, widespread, and long duration temperatures as well as wind and solar droughts.” So we aren't making up for all the grid-stabilizing coal and nuclear plants that have closed?

I know a guy who makes native American artifacts. His best seller is wampum. This year he can't keep it in stock. Is wampum going to be a kind of cryptocurrency?"