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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago

Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

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Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine

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Some_Emo_Chick@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 days ago
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The political polarization of health outcomes in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
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Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study finds that conservatives in the USA experienced worse health and higher mortality than liberals during the 2010s. No significant gaps in biomarkers or mortality were present before the 2010s.
  • TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Let natural selection do its job.

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      Just sucks for their kids.

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        Most of their kids end up just like them. It’s matrix rules, until they’re out they may as well be agents.

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        The children would likely grow up to be uneducated conservatives too. It’s better this way for everyone involved.

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          Imagine publicly advocating for the deaths of children via preventable and gruesome illness.

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            I’m not advocating for it though?

            I’m simply stating the obvious.

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              You said it was better, but you didn’t say it should happen.

              Huh.

              Yep, that’s not advocating. Checks out. Carry on.

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            Nah just advocating for the obvious consequences of their specific actions. Cause and effect.

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      They likely still only die after having kids, so natural selection has really no effect here.

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