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> Cancer happens in 44% of men. First, that's still a minority. Second, for the overwhelming majority of that 44%, you can easily categorize it as age related.
by maratd 15y ago
> Cancer happens in 44% of men.
First, that's still a minority. Second, for the overwhelming majority of that 44%, you can easily categorize it as age related.
> Wisdom teeth happen in over 90% of people
The routine removal of wisdom teeth is unnecessary. It is only a necessity in a very small minority of people.
> Age-related farsightedness occurs in EVERYONE (it's caused by continual growth of the lens).
Uhmm, age related by definition. You do remember what we started to talk about originally, right?
> If you even read the blurb of the red queen book
No need to read a blurb when you read the book itself.
> it's "contraversial" aka "usually strung together by a popsci writer"
Do you frequently judge books without reading them? Oh well.
- gte910h 15y agoYes, these are all age related. And they're all things we leave in. We also prevent tooth decay, which killed a large group of them. Etc. I DO judge a book by the blurb the writer puts on the cover, yes. If they want to call out a controversial theory (by their own words), I'll wait until real scientists who are in that area look at the idea, not a pop-sci treatment of an idea that isn't actually being tested, especially a book advocating the death of billions.