Comments on: “Health In All Policies” https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/health-policies/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:42:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: rxc https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/health-policies/comment-page-1/#comment-317344 Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:42:14 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50517#comment-317344 This is going to become a corollary to the “precautionary principle”, and is just as dangerous. It amounts to turning over control of society to the people who tell the scariest stories. In this case, the scariest health story, about the impact of some particular proposal on the health of the people in a particular neighborhood. They use social “science” to calculate hypothetical risks and hypothetical adverse effects, and they apply them to frighten people. It is a form of control. See, e.g., the use of the word “nudge” to describe ways to change behavior.

It is one of the waypoints on the road to totalitarianism

]]> By: ras https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/health-policies/comment-page-1/#comment-317119 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 23:24:50 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50517#comment-317119 Integrating solutions across diverse issues is traditionally the job of elected officials. Methinks I see yet another bureaucratic power grab, yet another excuse for yet another shot at total control. There’s the real disease.

]]> By: Jesse Spurway https://www.overlawyered.com/2015/01/health-policies/comment-page-1/#comment-317076 Fri, 09 Jan 2015 13:17:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=50517#comment-317076 ” the federal school lunch program ”
I agree. I heard the terms “mystery meat” and “kitchen floor goulash” back in the 70s.
Maybe they don’t print school menus a week in advance like they use to. So, kids can’t take a lunch when it’s mystery meal. That’s what we did.

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