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Saifedean Ammous
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Sixty years of health authorities promoting poisonous plant fats & creating global hysteria about animal fats were ALL based on this astoundingly idiotic and dishonest "study" by Ancel Keys, one of the most destructive humans to ever live.
Do you worry about the effect of consuming too much meat on your heart?
Do you consume any kind of hydrogenated plant fats to avoid animal fats?
You are simply killing yourself based on nothing more than this idiotic "study".
This is a good article by Terence Kealey on the topic.
cato.org/publications/p…
Terence Kealey's book The Economic Laws of Scientific Research is a very important but ignored book. It's essential to understand how government control of science produces garbage fiat science
gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php…
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Saifedean Ammous
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To paraphrase Bastiat, the difference between a good economist & a statist economist is that the good economist thinks of the seen & unseen costs, whereas the statist is conditioned, like a dog, to never see anything wrong with his paymasters' actions
One of the most mendacious ideas Marxist nuts have popularized is that "money is a social construct" or a "shared hallucination", and that anything can be money if we all just believe hard enough in it. This has of course been very popular among all Marxist regimes & politicians.
Yes, idiots, anything can be used as money, just like anything can be used as toilet paper, but choices have consequences. How will humans react to the incentives created by a money? What will secure it? How can they fail? Who controls the supply? Not Marxist questions of course!
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Saifedean Ammous
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Fiat money allows wars with no real cost to governments, which makes detestable bloodthirsty chickenhawk scum like @MaxBoot & @BillKristol, who've never faced costs for their warmongering, the perfect "foreign policy experts".
theamericanconservative.com/articles/why-a…
In 2003 Wolfowitz told Congress the Iraq war would be practically costless.
It turned out to cost more than $2Trillion.
With hard money Wolfowitz would have had to raise the $2T BEFORE war.
With easy money, he can get his carnage on & leave taxpayers footing the bill for decades
Wolfowitz was not alone. Richard Perle, Lawrence Lindsay, Kenneth Pollack, Glenn Hubbard, Ari Fleischer, Donald Rumsfeld, & Mitchell Daniels all lied about the expected cost of war. They all got paid handsomely for it; never had to pay back a dime.
thenation.com/article/who-sa…
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Saifedean Ammous
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The greatest trick socialists ever pulled was calling their propaganda rags "capitalist" and "pro free market", so that all their idiotic ideas' inevitable failure is blamed on capitalism, necessitating more idiotic and socialist "solutions".
I, like many others, wasted many years of my life being a statist idiot because of this trick. "If even free market champions The Economist support [stupid statist idea] then it has got to be a legitimate function of government."
Exactly. Stop letting socialists define words for you.
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