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A lot of the comments I'm seeing seem to be trying to dismiss this out of hand. But why is it so hard to believe? We haven't exactly been treating the planet or
by hotpotamus 3y ago
A lot of the comments I'm seeing seem to be trying to dismiss this out of hand. But why is it so hard to believe? We haven't exactly been treating the planet or ourselves that well over the last few decades. Hasn't obesity also risen dramatically (and not just in the US) over the last 30 years as well? Would that be so hard to believe? And wouldn't it also be a potential cause of cancer and other disease?
- jl6 3y agoIt’s probably because the article is quite sloppy. It doesn’t link to the original study. It doesn’t discuss anything about how diagnosis rates and incidence rates might differ (e.g. increased screening / better medical care). It reports a global figure without attempting to disaggregate, so we don’t know if this is a dramatic change across the globe or driven by improving healthcare in developing countries that previously weren’t diagnosing cancers reliably.