Mainstream medicine recommends avoiding both intentional and unintentional exposure to the H1N1 virus. I hope that they are right and perhaps they are, but the degree of certainty in their pronouncements indicates to me that they may be prescribing out of their depth: out of what may really require an application of probability theory. Continue reading
Posted in Health, Life science, Mathematics
Tagged Avian influenza, disease, health, pandemic
Long before the founding of Islam, the charging of interest on loans had been broadly forbidden. Early encounters with interest bearing loans had often led to impoverishment and in response community by community condemned the instrument. Beginning with England under Henry VIII, many non-Islāmic countries began recognizing the value brought to the borrower in a loan’s temporal empowerment.
Sharian Rule by Degree
Posted in Economics, Fiscal responsibility, Mathematics, Obscured motives, Secular vs. Nonsecular
Tagged banking, economic, loan, mathematics, usury
For every nation that supports its citizens in obtaining health services there are financial limitations that make some care unavailable. Here I propose a system that mediates optimally between our deepest values and the realities of illness and scarcity. It would cut paperwork while spurring and even redirecting medical research. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Fiscal responsibility, Health, Life science, Mathematics, United States
Tagged budget, health, healthcare
