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These aging stories are like a Rorschach test for whatever “science” a person already believes in.



Can you go into more details on what you are trying to point out here? I am not sure what stories you are referring to, nor do I fully understand the rest of your sentence.


People see some stupid anecdote and then share the theory that fits whatever they believe to be true no matter how nonsensical it is.

If I told you the people on the north side of my grandma’s nursing home died before the people who lived on the south side, you’d have some theory about sunlight exposure and excessive mold growth on the north side of the building. Air pollution kills!

But then it turns out the north side is just where they put the sicker people.


I see. You dislike anecdotes and conjecture in general or just in this circumstance?


I don’t dislike them, I think it’s really funny.




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