Tabular-Iceberg

Nonsense. There is no lottery, children are born of their parents 100% of the time. Those children have a right to what their parents built, and a duty to leave it better than they found it for their children, and that includes their nations.

That seems like it would be the most important part of the whole article, and it was left out.

It’s possible that the standards of evidence in a civil case is low enough that they don’t have to demonstrate a causal link. Only that there is radiation in the air and that radiation causes cancer.

I don’t think it’s entirely one way either.

Someone mentioned malaria-afflicted test takers before. Of course better healthcare leads to lower disease load, which leads to higher IQ, but it’s only a weak link, simply not leaving old tires with water strewn about the place is free.

I suspect accuracy of any IQ test falls off the further you get from 100 in either direction, so I’m not married to any global IQ dataset in particular. But they all show the same trend.

All the politically and economically prosperous countries show as high and the basket cases show as low. And if you sit in on their political discourse it increasingly sounds like you’re in an open air mental institution. (Though regrettably that model has been losing a lot of predictive power in the democratic West lately).

I don't get it. Is the author surprised that the world figurehead of being anti-religion is not a fan of Islam, which is a religion?

Has he not spoken against any other religions, or practitioners thereof?

And the subsequent PSOE admins show precisely why Spain had to be a dictatorship.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Another one that the Europeans like to this effect is unrealized capital gains tax, to make sure you never make it to the unicorn stage.

Who on earth are those 1.7% men who go for "obstetric and gynaecological devices"?

Are they accompanying their wives, end up fainting during the procedures, hit their heads and have to be patched up?

Why don't the anti-underground disposal crowd advocate more for long term dry cask storage where monitoring and maintenance is both cheap and easy?

If you don't want to keep women chained to their desks and away from children, then what's the problem?