“The less they know, the less they know it”
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The imbecile RFK Jr. is destroying the FDA…
….like everything else he touches. An excerpt: The inquiry came in August, and struck scientists at the Food and Drug Administration as highly unusual. The leader of the center that regulates prescription medicines wanted to know what they thought about leucovorin, a generic drug that’s mainly used to alleviate side effects of cancer therapies. He’d seen…
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Harvard student newspaper profiles Adrian Vermeule…
….but manages never to note that his feeble book Common-Good Constitutionalism (aptly dubbed “Twitter constitutionalism” by some colleagues) is full of jurisprudential claims that are either mistaken or unargued for. Vermeule’s repeated reference to “the classical tradition” is a reference to something that does not exist.
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The first five laws of cyber-dynamics
First Law of Cyber-dynamics: any unmoderated comment thread will reduce the total amount of knowledge and understanding in the world in proportion to its length. Second Law of Cyber-dynamics: any unmoderated comment thread on a post touching on politics, race or gender will degenerate into vile idiocy within the first ten comments. Third Law of Cyber-dynamics: no…
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Oliver Kamm, Marko Attila Hoare, and the Importance of Being Able to Read
All schoolchildren take note: one reason it is really important to learn how to read well is because if you don’t, you might grow up and make a real ass of yourself in public, and do so repeatedly, all because of inadequate reading skills. Of course, learning how to read well is no protection against…
Back when I applied ~15 years ago, the GRE was the most time-intensive part of the application (it’s also expensive),…