4 posts tagged with society by daksya.
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Towards a culture of responsible drug use - an essay by the creators of Erowid [via]
posted by daksya
on Sep 8, 2008 -
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"An open society must be prepared to listen to those who offer a critique of its conventional wisdom—and our conventional wisdom about drugs and addiction should be no exception."
posted by daksya
on Sep 22, 2007 -
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Economist Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics, has long posited a controversial thesis that legalized abortion help reduced crime, by reducing unwanted children, prone to crime. However, a new paper argues that Levitt (& Donohue) made serious errors in their research. Properly analysed, abortion has no significant effect on crime. Levitt disagrees, of course.
posted by daksya
on Dec 4, 2005 -
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Class in American society, a survey by the Economist.
posted by daksya
on Jul 17, 2005 -
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