Don't freak out at the clickbait headline.
Don't freak out at the clickbait headline. This article barely and toward the end starts to touch on what essentially means we make a lot of assumptions and are bad at accepting that we are wrong. This has consequences.
It relates to things like how we've been manipulating food supply and what people eat for decades and that has significantly failed in its purpose - to decrease the number of deaths from heart disease. Now, technically, the numbers are falling over time, but not like they should be. If it's failing middle class white people, it's failing people of lower socio economics and deeper tans even moreso.
Or our approach to addiction. Yes, it kills people. Turns out, still not as many as some other things. Also, the assumptions behind a phrase like "despair deaths" make me want to smack people. Saying that addicts died of despair is to ignore what evidence we do have and what addiction actually is. Stupid assumptions lead to stupid conclusions. Surprise.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/middle-aged-white-americans-left-behind-and-dying-early/433863/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/middle-aged-white-americans-left-behind-and-dying-early/433863
It relates to things like how we've been manipulating food supply and what people eat for decades and that has significantly failed in its purpose - to decrease the number of deaths from heart disease. Now, technically, the numbers are falling over time, but not like they should be. If it's failing middle class white people, it's failing people of lower socio economics and deeper tans even moreso.
Or our approach to addiction. Yes, it kills people. Turns out, still not as many as some other things. Also, the assumptions behind a phrase like "despair deaths" make me want to smack people. Saying that addicts died of despair is to ignore what evidence we do have and what addiction actually is. Stupid assumptions lead to stupid conclusions. Surprise.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/middle-aged-white-americans-left-behind-and-dying-early/433863/
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/01/middle-aged-white-americans-left-behind-and-dying-early/433863
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