studies show that marginal spending on medicine has zero net effect
That study is quite outdated compared to modern impact evaluation approaches, and some newer studies actually contradict its results. This is a very bold claim and presenting this as a possible absurdity bias may achieve building a new bias of over-considering absurdity. The language of the article is very pedantic taking the results of the study as the most obvious and smart thing "If you remember only one medical study, it should be the RAND health insurance experiment". Extraordinary cla... (read more)
Theres nothing wrong, but it's an interesting choice, what do both things have in common? just the cheering? what's the purpose of this example, is marching naked in a gay pride a cartoonishly ridiculous cheering? is this supposed to appeal to the readers feelings in some way?
Sometimes cheering can be an expression of tradition and identity and not be materially net harmful but the opposite for the individual. Is this instrumentally ... (read more)