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Yet another look at that lead-crime meta-study

2 years 8 months ago
Tyler Cowen weighs in today on a study of the lead-crime hypothesis: These results seem a bit underwhelming, and furthermore there seems to be publication bias....I have long been agnostic about the lead-crime hypothesis, simply because I never had the time to look into it, rather than for any particular substantive reason. (I suppose I ...continue reading "Yet another look at that lead-crime meta-study"
Kevin Drum

University Of Oklahoma The Latest To Issue A Performative Ban Of TikTok

2 years 8 months ago
Pretending that you’re actually fixing the world’s privacy and national security issues by banning TikTok is just so very hot right now. Numerous states have passed new rules banning TikTok on government employee devices. And Marco Rubio has proposed a federal law that would ban TikTok unless ByteDance is willing to sell the popular app […]
Karl Bode