Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: liberty philosophy government
What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. Their beliefs have remained imperious to an ever-growing body of evidence that refutes them while being embraced by public-health authorities and translated into precisely the wrong advice about what to eat and, more important, what not to eat if we want to maintain a healthy weight and live a long and healthy life.
Gary TaubesTags: diet government dieting obesity bad-science carbohydrates pitfalls-of-bad-thinking confirmation-bias paleo ketosis low-carb
Even if these researchers do see the need to address the problem immediately, though they have obligations and legitimate interests elsewhere, including being funded for other research. With luck, the ideas discussed in Good Calories, Bad Calories may be rigorously tested in the next twenty years. If confirmed, it will be another decade or so after that, at least, before our public health authorities actively change their official explanation for why we get fat, how that leads to illness, and what we have to do to avoid or reverse those fates. As I was told by a professor of nutrition at New York University after on of my lectures, the kind of change I'm advocating could take a lifetime to be accepted.
Gary TaubesTags: science diet government illness dieting obesity calories public-health bad-science confirmation-bias
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: power democracy government corporations feudalism
That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.
Richard A. EpsteinTags: politics liberal state progressive government finance libertarian conservative
The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.
Richard A. EpsteinTags: politics liberal state progressive government finance libertarian conservative
Securing, not prohibiting, the orderly transfer of wealth from A to B, based on wealth differentials, is the raison d'être of the [New Deal programs]. The contrast between the modern progressive and classical liberal agendas could not be more explicit.
Richard A. EpsteinTags: politics liberal state progressive government finance libertarian conservative
The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.
Richard A. EpsteinTags: politics liberal state progressive government finance libertarian conservative
The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.
Richard A. EpsteinTags: politics liberal state progressive government finance libertarian conservative
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.
Rutherford B. HayesTags: wealth capitalism government president corporations occupy-wall-street potus ows
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