Globally Rational

//“Fixing Mistakes” will be a new series where I talk about how our society can learn from its mistakes and correct its own problems… but we can only do it if we’re willing to think outside the box.
We have spent countless amounts of money, manpower, and resources in an attempt to fight the drug trade… […]

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//I’ve come across a lot of people who oppose the recent suggestion of implementing a sales tax on Internet purchases.  My favorite line of reasoning is the argument (which I heard on a radio interview with a random online retailer) that some of these businesses are already just barely scratching a profit and that a […]

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//Many of you may have heard that President Bush recently stated that he has stopped playing golf in solidarity for the soldiers in Iraq. His rationale:
I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as — […]

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//This is the first post by Kola, our newest writer. Please join me in welcoming him to Globally Rational; hopefully, we will be seeing more great content in the future.
Hello class.
When it comes to the issue of international minimums on human rights, I usually take positions that mobs of good people would stone me […]

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//Yesterday, I wrote about how we’re incentivizing scientists to stop innovating. In that post, I promised to suggest some solutions today. Here are some things we can do to foster increased scientific innovation:

We should require institutional research boards (IRBs) to include more scientifically knowledgeable personnel, so that decisions can be made by scientists […]

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//Which comes first in a country: the immigrants or the economic success?
It’s like the chicken-and-egg paradox. If there was no promise of success, then immigrants wouldn’t come; meanwhile, if there were no immigrants, there wouldn’t be enough people to succeed (in cosmopolitan countries like the US). Of course, there are exceptions to the […]

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//I recently put up a guest post on another person’s blog about my perspective on global warming, as one of the rare scientists who actually enjoys writing about issues. Click here to check it out.
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//I think we can all agree that the advancement of science, especially medical science, is of paramount importance. So why is it that the National Institutes of Health, among other similar institutions, are always low on manpower and money?
I think that the NIH needs to establish a nationwide (or, preferably, global) network of peer-reviewed […]

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