by Erik Kain on October 14, 2011
Amanda Marcotte is taking the GOOD Magazine health challenge and she, like yours truly, has no patience for faux-naturalistic health tips that aren’t grounded in scientific evidence. Unfortunately, on day eight of the challenge she ran into just such a tip: Cord Jefferson surprised me by writing an anti-soap screed, sincehe recently wrote an evidence-based [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 14, 2011
First, look at these job loss numbers: Now look at the uninsured rates in 2009 and 2010. The Affordable Care Act’s early provisions went into effect in 2010: More people are uninsured in 2010 than in 2009, but the 18-24 group is the exception to this rule. Kevin Drum argues that this is the result [...]
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Since I spilled a bunch of ink on climate change and science denialists recently at The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, I thought I might as well take on a few of the other big science vs. anti-science issues. For the right kind of skepticism, take James Randi on homeopathy. Randi has recently offered one million [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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