NancyLebovitz comments on Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism - LessWrong

147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 14 September 2010 06:36:15AM 6 points [-]

My impression is that Hanson's take on conventional medicine is that half the money spent is wasted. However, I don't know if he's been very specific about which half.

Comment author: Larks 14 September 2010 07:09:55AM 3 points [-]

The RAND Health Experiment, which he frequently citied study didn't investigate the benefits of catastrophic medical insurance or that which people pay for from their own pocket, and found the rest useless.