Lars P. Syll

What does a RCT tell us? Parachute use compared with a backpack control did not reduce death or major traumatic injury when used by participants jumping from aircraft in this first randomized evaluation of the intervention. This largely resulted from our ability to only recruit participants jumping from stationary aircraft on the ground. When beliefs regarding the effectiveness of an intervention exist in the community, randomized trials evaluating their...

Chomsky vs Foucault on politics and society .[embedded content] [embedded content]

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Robert Lucas and his Keynesian credentials In his Keynote Address to the 2003 History of Political Economy Conference, Robert Lucas said: Well, I’m not here to tell people in this group about the history of monetary thought. I guess I’m here as a kind of witness from a vanished culture, the heyday of Keynesian economics. It’s like historians rushing to interview the last former slaves before they died, or the last of the people who remembered growing up in...

Why there is no relationship between truth and logic .[embedded content] To be ‘analytical’ and ‘logical’ is something most people find recommendable. These words have a positive connotation. Scientists think deeper than most other people because they use ‘logical’ and ‘analytical’ methods. In dictionaries, logic is often defined as “reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity” and ‘analysis’ as having to do with “breaking...

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Top 20 heterodox economics books Karl Marx, Das Kapital (1867) Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development (1911) Nikolai Kondratiev, The Major Economic Cycles (1925) Gunnar Myrdal, The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory (1930) John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory (1936) Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944) Paul Sweezy, Theory of Capitalist Development...

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Torsten Ehrenmark (och yours truly) — Vad ska jag baka för? säger hustrun. Du äter ju bara upp allting. — Är det inte meningen, det då, säger jag. Ska det ligga tills det blir grönt och skäggigt av mögel? — Men du behöver väl inte äta upp hela baket på en gång, säger hustrun. — Det är godast första dagen, säger jag vällustigt! Sådana dagar orkar jag knappt äta lunch. Är jag hemma hela dagen och skriver blir det eftermiddagskaffe, och då stryker nästa...

Neil Oliver — a severe case of anti-vaxxer debility .[embedded content]