Surgery Works Well Without The FDA
Also: the block funding model, the importance of coordination, “safe stasis,” and more
Surgery Works Well Without The FDA
by Maxwell Tabarrok
Surgery has at least all of the market challenges that harry pharmaceuticals and it doesn’t have an FDA. Yet, it still muddles through.
Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model
by Jason Crawford
Funding should go in a single block to a relatively large research organization… This is how some of the most effective, transformative labs in the world have been organized.
The increasing importance of coordination
by Mark Lutter
The world is changing. Current institutions, including governments, universities, media, are ill suited to the changes… It’s up to us to build a better future for ourselves and our ancestors.
Safe Stasis Fallacy
by David Manheim
A critical failure mode in many discussions of technological risk is the assumption that maintaining status quo for technology would lead to maintaining the status quo for society.
The Seven Laws of Declinism
by Maarten Boudry
If life is better than ever before, why does the world seem so depressing?
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