More hyped nonsense this week about cannabis (whether it is ‘dangerous’ by causing psychosis, whether it should be reclassified to B, and so on). Although based on a Lancet study (a meta-analysis of previous work ), once the media and politicians got hold of the research it became a lot more robust than the study’s [...]
Entries from July 2007
July 5, 2007
Follow the money (times two)
This isn’t really on topic (re. the complexity of social life), but is definitely on the margins. Indeed, when it comes to things like the housing market explanations like ‘interest rates aren’t high so we’ll be OK’ are trying to create a simple story out of millions of individual experiences. In both this case, and [...]
