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Originally Posted by flappist
The reason there was not as much cancer 1000 years ago was we were nearly all dead by the time we were 40 and 1000 years before that 30 was really old.
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You are confused about statistics. we have always lived roughly the same ages, but without a lot of degenerative diseases.
But back in the day there was a high infant mortality.
Three people are born, two die at birth (quite common back in the day) one lives to be 90, average life expectancy is 30, where realistically it's 90 if you survive birth and don't get eaten by a T Rex.
Statistics can be manipulated to show anything you want.
'Water is deadly to drink.' how do I know this? Every person that has died has drank water at some point, there is a 100% association between drinking water and death.
'Firefighters cause fires.' how do I know this? Every fire I have seen fire fighters were there.
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