When it comes to empirical questions that speak to the need for health care reform, Megan McArdle knows where to turn to for answers:
[W]e could go to the academic literature. Not the literature from advocacy groups which too often fills the pages of political magazines on the left and right, but something from someplace like Rand. And fortuitously, Rand happens to have published a paper on this very topic!
Similarly fortuitously, the George C. Marshall Institute happens to have published a paper on global warming. Also, the Advancement of Sound Science Center has a paper on the effects of secondhand smoke.
Will the serendipity never end?
(Via Thomas Levenson.)
