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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
Jake is joined periodically by two wonderful guest bloggers: Kara Contreary and Kate Seip. See the About Page.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own or those of my co-bloggers. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments we currently attend.
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Libertarian politics:
Two good articles on libertarian politics this week. First, the Economist covers Freedom House's "How Free?" report on the US: But the verdict on the Bush years is nevertheless sharp. "How Free?" not only details and condemns the administration's familiar...
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Posted on May 14, 2008 10:24 AM • 2 Comments •
Things I did not visualize reading this morning. 1) David Mamet wrote a piece in the Village Voice -- of all places -- disavowing his faith in government. Money quote: For the Constitution, rather than suggesting that all behave in...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 11:36 AM • 6 Comments •
Boo Universe! Boo American politics and your absence of choices! You can try this electoral quiz that tells you who you should vote for here. The Universe has apparently determined that I should vote for Ron Paul -- which is...
Posted on January 10, 2008 9:43 AM • 16 Comments •
Ron Paul just lost my vote (not that he really had it before). See the video below the fold (the question is at about 2:40):...
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Posted on December 19, 2007 3:34 PM • 26 Comments •
I am clearing out links, so here are two quotes on a libertarian persuasion. From Jane Galt (about media coverage of the Hillary/Obama foreign policy debate: It's not really my business, since I don't think anyone will ever describe me...
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Posted on July 30, 2007 12:42 PM • 3 Comments •
Brian Doherty from Reason has an interesting article on NY's place as a libertarian mecca: New York City is the celebrated center for many vital aspects of American culture: publishing, finance, and the arts. It rarely has been credited, however,...
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Posted on July 2, 2007 10:21 AM • 0 Comments •
I wrote about my skepticism about libertarian paternalism before. Here is some more skepticism. Glen Whitman writes about one type of policy advocated by libertarian paternalists -- the opt-out program. In opt-out programs, you are enrolled in what the government...
Posted on June 6, 2007 11:03 AM • 0 Comments •
Ilya Somin from the Volokh Conspiracy has this post on a resurgent paternalism -- using as its justification new findings from behavioral economics: "Libertarian Paternalism" is all the rage in law and economics circles these days. To slightly oversimplify, libertarian...
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Posted on May 29, 2007 11:51 AM • 6 Comments •
Cathy Young has an interesting column on the tension among libertarians between the desire to be tolerant about other people's lifestyles and personal convictions about those issues: Within the libertarian milieu, there is a tension between political libertarians, whose chief...
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Posted on February 14, 2007 9:26 AM • 3 Comments •
Everyone always emphasizes the evangelical Right as running the Republican Party, but David Kirby and David Boaz -- writing in TCS -- argue that Republicans ignore the libertarian vote at their peril: In the past, our research shows, most libertarians...
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Posted on December 11, 2006 1:19 PM • 6 Comments •
