Karl Smith writes “crime and poverty in the first world are biological diseases and one day they will have a biological cure”.
Public policy is applied zoology.
May 25, 2011
A clinical analysis to warm the hearts of colder types
Posted by teageegeepea under Uncategorized[7] Comments
May 25, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Most criminals suffer from lead deficiency. 240 grains, administered cranially, is a certain cure for what ails them.
May 27, 2011 at 1:15 pm
I’ve stopped being surprised at the stupid things people will say – on the ‘Net, off it, doesn’t matter.
However, I weep for a language whose users are so far gone as to think ‘biological disease’ isn’t a redundancy.
May 29, 2011 at 8:46 pm
We come up with retronym type words like “rotary phone” all the time.
May 30, 2011 at 7:41 am
@ melendwyr
The psych folks will be glad to hear their fields of study have been successfully reduced to biology, they can collect their last paychecks at the door.
June 5, 2011 at 7:49 pm
They can in turn hand those checks down the line to physicists.
June 5, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Perhaps I’m late to a joke, but Karl Smith is a weird name for an economist.
June 6, 2011 at 12:04 am
I used to joke that it’s a combination of Karl Marx and Adam Smith (referring to him as “Adam Marx” sometimes). He gave some of the backstory here.