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A compilation/ list of public health textbooks from its inception till today

This is a placeholder post, to help me assess the evolving state of public health. 1873: Manual for medical officers of health by Edward Smith 1874: Manual of public health by Michael, William Henry, 1821- 1875: Manual of Public Health for Ireland by Thomas Wrigley Grimshaw 1884: Public health : the practical guide to the […]

The 2014 communist manifesto of Public Health (Richard Horton et al)

Public health published a full-blown political “manifesto” in The Lancet in 2014, written by its editor, Richard Horton. This “medical” journal rightly called it a “manifesto” since it is indistinguishable from Marx’s Communist Manifesto or G.B. Shaw’s Fabian Manifesto. This is a case of a so-called “scientific” discipline publishing a full-blown communist manifesto. And most […]

Anyone thinking of “universal basic income” should think of the DISASTROUS effects of the Poor laws of pre-1834 England

I’ve discussed UBI here. But I chanced upon a chapter in Roger Watson’s 1969 book, Edwin Chadwick, Poor Law & Public Health. It holds a salutory lesson about human incentives. The chapter in PDF. === The Old Poor Law The state of the poor had been worrying the government for some time. The cost of […]

Jaggi Vasudev – aka Sadhguru (or Sadguru). Yet another TYPICAL “Hindu” conman.

I’m starting this placeholder post just to track this man. Lots of stuff I’ve come across but not had time to document. I had made some notes here earlier:  Sadguru’s wisdom – extracted by Rocky Karthik. Rocky rocks! More here: I dont usually debunk what health-illiterate spiritual gurus mutter about medicine and nutrition, but this video […]

Complete works of Edwin Chadwick and biographies about him

Edwin Chadwick is turning out to be an independent thinker of significance in his own right – and while not as prominent as Bentham or J.S. Mill, his works can tell us a lot about how modern public health was conceived of in its original days. This is a placeholder post. I’ll keep adding links […]

Transcription of Javier Milei: Four reasons why socialism fails

This is an auto-translation via AI transcription and Google translate. Will need to review before inclusion in Missing Chapters. What you have to understand is that what is wrong is the idea, the idea is going to work badly even with Mother Teresa of Calcutta, that is, socialism can only work if the one in […]

The National Gain (1765) in Swedish, by Anders Chydenius, 1729–1803

Overview of Anders Chydenius: https://www.acton.org/pub/religion-li... A transalation of this work is available at: https://www.panarchy.org/chydenius/na... I’ve OCRd below, for annotated study, the translation provided in the book Anticipating The Wealth of Nations: The Selected Works of Anders Chydenius, 1729–1803  === The National Gain Respectfully presented to The Honourable Estates of the Realm By one of Their […]

Paul Berman’s thesis regarding human irrationality

I’m using this to understand better and make annotations (in colour, etc.) SOURCE: https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media... ===EXTRACT==== I would like to offer ten propositions with which our present crisis could be observed. 1) In the nineteenth century, the belief arose that the secret of human progress had been discovered and had been proved to be correct. This […]

I question, therefore I am – a book on critical thinking by Sanjeev Sabhlok, published on 11 March 2023

I QUESTION, THEREFORE I AM I’d published this on 11 March 2023 but forgot to publish a matching post on my blog. Website: http://ct.sabhlokcity.com URL of the book: http://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/Misc/B...

The brilliant refutation of socialism in 1909 by George B. Hugo

In 1909 a debate occurred in Massachusetts on the topic of socialism as documented in the book, Socialism, the Creed of Despair. George Hugo refuted socialism. Two extracts: SUMMARY OF WHY SOCIALISM CAN’T WORK Socialism is a menace to modern civilization. Why ? (1) Because it is a step backward,—retrogression. (2) It would destroy man’s […]