Sacred Cows is a new series of talks in London dedicated to investigating the evidence behind contemporary ideas that can seem immune from criticism.
Sacred Cows
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Sacred Cows is a new series of talks in London dedicated to investigating the evidence behind contemporary ideas that can seem immune from criticism.
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5/24/2024
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February 8, 2025
Net Zero: Why the cure is worse than the climate change disease
<p>This is Sacred Cows' fourth talk where David Turver discussed some of the wild claims being made in support of Net Zero such as 'cheap' renewables, subsidies for fossil fuels, the scale of the storage problem, the promise of green jobs and more.</p><p>David is the author of the the<a href="https://davidturver.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Eigen Values substack</a> which has gained thousands of subscribers since its launch in January 2023 for its fundamental analysis of energy policy and Net Zero. He is a graduate engineer, retired consultant, CIO and project management professional. See his<a href="https://davidturver.substack.com/p/net-zero-cure-worse-than-climate-change-disease" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">post</a> here for a summary of the arguments, and links to the slides.</p>
July 7, 2024
The Case Against the NHS Cult: with Dr Kristian Niemietz
<p>This is the recording of Sacred Cows' second event in London on the 24th June 2024. Talk description below:</p> <p><br></p> <p>In surveys which ask people what makes them most proud to be British, the NHS always consistently comes out as the top response, and by a very large margin. Even progressives, who would normally find patriotism cringeworthy, suddenly become flag-waving nationalists when you make Britishness about the NHS.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Dr Kristian Niemietz, Editorial Director at the Institute of Economic Affairs and author of the book "Universal Healthcare Without the NHS", sees NHS worship as a bizarre, irrational cult. He argues that there is nothing the NHS has achieved which dozens of other healthcare systems have not also achieved, and often better. He sees the NHS as a mediocre-to-poor healthcare system which trails behind most of its peers, and which is completely undeserving of the adulation it receives. He also argues that NHS worship is not just a harmless national eccentricity, but an active deterrent to achieving better health outcomes.</p>
May 24, 2024
Do Diverse Companies Really Perform Better? With Professor Alex Edmans, author of May Contain Lies
<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that diverse companies perform better. The evidence is apparently so irrefutable that one FTSE 350 chair raged that ‘There have been enough reports… statistics and… evidence-based research to stop talking about it and get on with it.’ Another viewed the evidence that diversity trumps any other attribute as so ironclad that he tells executive search firms, ‘I don’t want to see any men. I don’t care if they’re Jesus Christ. I don’t want to see them.’ Similar statements are made about the supposedly cast-iron link between ESG and firm performance</p> <p>In this talk, Sacred Cows' inaugural event, Professor Alex Edmans explains how the evidence for both is much weaker than often touted, and is rife with examples of reverse causation, inadequate controls, cherrypicking of data, and confirmation bias. Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. His book May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases – And What We Can Do About It (Penguin Random House) is out on the 25th April.</p> <p>Sacred Cows is a new series of talks in London dedicated to investigating the evidence behind contemporary ideas that can seem immune from criticism. Subscribe to our channel for future talks, and see our channel page for links to our mailing list and twitter.</p>
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