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Smoked Cannabis’ Effect on Lungs – Dr. Tashkin

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June 18, 2012

Dr. Tashkin comments on the largest and most comprehnsive study to date on smoked cannabis’ effect on lung function and cancer rates. The study showed that cannabis does not cause COPD, nor does it cause lung cancer.
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America Should Model Its Health Care Market After Pet Care

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May 14, 2012

If we had a free market in health care, you could expect to see prices for full blown cancer treatment, including radiation and chemo, for less than $10,000. How do I know this? Because that’s what it costs to treat your dog. Veterinary care, while still heavily regulated by the commissars of the state, is still essentially...
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The Austrian School Theory to be Presented Before Congress: Gold vs. Bitcoin

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May 8, 2012
The Austrian School Theory to be Presented Before Congress: Gold vs. Bitcoin

Economist Jeffrey Herbener will be presenting a statement before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy of the U.S. House of Representatives today in which he presents the Austrian theory of money and credit, and in which he makes the case for market management of the money supply. I disagree with some of what Herbener is presenting, so...
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Vaccine bombshell: Baby monkeys develop autism after routine CDC vaccinations

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May 7, 2012

Ethan A. Huff Natural News May 7, 2012 (NaturalNews) If vaccines play absolutely no role in the development of childhood autism, a claim made by many medical authorities today, then why are some of the most popular vaccines commonly administered to children demonstrably causing autism in animal primates? This is the question many people...
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Corporal Punishment & Social Science

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May 7, 2012

A large collection of interviews by social scientists on the effects of initiating violence against children. playlist As always, any information that is presented by a statist should be viewed with skepticism; however, the information presented in this series of videos agrees with the philosophy of voluntarism as it pertains to children. The harmful...
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Peter Leeson Explains Anarchy

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May 7, 2012

Economist Peter Leeson explains self-governance (anarcho-capitalism) at the Advanced Austrian Economics conference in Irvington, NY, August 6, 2010. Presented by the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE).   Other lectures of note on this topic: The Machinery Of Freedom: Illustrated summary, by David Friedman Is Limited Government an Oxymoron?, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and Doug...
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Want To Learn Austrian School Economics But Don’t Know Where To Start?

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May 4, 2012

Here is a letter I recently wrote which answers that question:   Hi Andrew, Here is a list of resources for you to browse through. The first and most important website out of all of them is Mises.org. The Mises Institute website pretty much has links to every piece of literature on Austrian economics that...
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James Lovelock: We Don’t Know What the Climate is Doing…I Made a Mistake.

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April 24, 2012

Praise Mao, and may the green party expropriate your entire paycheck to save the polar bears. The Daily Mail reports: Environmental scientist James Lovelock, renowned for his terrifying predictions of climate change’s deadly impact on the planet, has gone back on his previous claims, admitting they were ‘alarmist’. The 92-year-old Briton, who also developed the...
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Nearly 50 NASA Scientists and Astronauts Issue Letter Rejecting NASA’s Stance on Global Warming

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April 11, 2012
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A group of nearly 50 very prominent NASA scientists and astronauts has issued a public letter to current NASA administrator Charles Bolden, Jr. requesting that NASA stop supporting unsubstantiated claims of manmade global warming. The letter reads in part: “We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from...
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When Planets Gave Birth to Comets

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April 9, 2012

Electric Universe proponent David Talbott presents the first of two video segments on the electric comet. Here he discusses NASA’s surprising findings on the composition of comets, none supporting the traditional “dirty snowball” hypothesis. For a tutorial on plasma cosmology, watch Thunderbolts of the Gods.
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