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Sunday, November 23, 2025
Links 5/11/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 154 Comments »
Bayer-Monsanto Fails (At First Attempt) to Block Mexico’s Phaseout of Glyphosate and Ban on GMO Corn
Mexico has already gone mano a mano with Monsanto before, and it came out on top. But this time it’s on a direct collision course with Big Ag and the U.S. government.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:31 am | 16 Comments »
Resignation in Protest, Frontiers in Pharmacology Topic Editors, “Treating COVID-19 With Currently Available Drugs”
Top scholars charge the online publication Frontiers in Pharmacology with gross editorial misconduct in spiking articles on Covid treatments.
Topics: Banana republic, Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Health care, Media watch, Ridiculously obvious scams, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 3:40 am | 36 Comments »
How Upskilling America Will Rebuild the Middle Class
A sanity check on how far “let them eat training” will go in restoring the fallen American middle class.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Income disparity, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:24 am | 40 Comments »
WHO, CDC Throw in the Towel on Covid Aerosol Transmission, Biden Administration Seems Oblivious
Tired: Droplets, fomites. Wired: Aerosols. Let us go forth and mitigate!
Topics: Guest Post, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 pm | 34 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 5/10/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 109 Comments »
New Lawsuit Challenges ‘Fast-Track’ Permits Used for Oil and Gas Pipelines Nationwide
For nearly a decade, pipeline companies have relied on the contested Nationwide Permit 12 when their projects cross waterbodies in the U.S.
Topics: Energy markets, Environment, Politics, Regulations and regulators
Posted by Lambert Strether at 12:02 pm | 1 Comment »
Links 5/10/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 139 Comments »
CDC Chooses to Fly Blind on Vaccine Breakthrough Cases
The CDC’s latest move in contrary to the interest of sound public health and science.
Topics: Banana republic, Doomsday scenarios, Dubious statistics, Health care, Pandemic, Politics, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Yves Smith at 1:04 am | 111 Comments »
Michael Hudson & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Imagining An End to Poverty and Economic Dependence
Michael Hudson and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove of the Poor People’s Campaign discuss Biden “reforms” and the (mis)use of religion in economic justice.
Topics: Guest Post, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, Social policy, Social values, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:12 am | 6 Comments »
Kelp, Trophic Cascades, and Climate
Wandering through the kelp forests (which turn out to be a carbon sequestration option).
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Guest Post, Permaculture
Posted by Lambert Strether at 4:55 pm | 25 Comments »
Links 5/9/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 197 Comments »
Modern Infectious Diseases: Macroeconomic Impacts and Policy Responses
Preventive policies, containment strategies, and early responses are more efficient, cost-effective, and manageable than combatting a full-scale infectious pandemic outbreak.
Topics: Macroeconomic policy, Pandemic
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:45 am | 10 Comments »
Links 5/8/2021
Topics: Links
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:55 am | 127 Comments »
Pay a Living Wage or ‘Flip Your Own Damn Burgers’: Progressives Blast Right-Wing Narrative on Jobs
Hiring has become difficult because some McJobs workers won’t risk their health for a crap wage. So the right wants to beat them down.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Free markets and their discontents, Health care, Income disparity, Pandemic, Politics, Social policy, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:02 am | 92 Comments »




