1. Read the article, or at least skim it before commenting. The rates listed are population normalized, it would be a very bizarre thing indeed if some other cause of death was preferentially killing people before they got old enough to die of cancer yet somehow still caused overall life expectancy to increase.
As you'll see, death rates for all age groups have been in decline across the board since 1991. People aren't dying due to obesity or diabetes instead of cancer, they're just dying less, mostly regardless of cause.
So please stop needlessly injecting your speculation and biases into the comments here, please only put forward arguments which are consistent with the well-established facts as we know them. Thanks.
>So please stop needlessly injecting your speculation and biases into the comments here, please only put forward arguments which are consistent with the well-established facts as we know them. Thanks.
What a truly strange thing to say.
"I elect myself thread moderator!"
Let's not act like needless comments and speculation don't have the potential to add to a topic of discussion, they do.
1. Read the article, or at least skim it before commenting. The rates listed are population normalized, it would be a very bizarre thing indeed if some other cause of death was preferentially killing people before they got old enough to die of cancer yet somehow still caused overall life expectancy to increase.
2. Acquaint yourself with some basic statistics on causes of death in recent times, such as this easy to read infographic from a few months ago: http://www.bloomberg.com/dataview/2014-04-17/how-americans-d...
As you'll see, death rates for all age groups have been in decline across the board since 1991. People aren't dying due to obesity or diabetes instead of cancer, they're just dying less, mostly regardless of cause.
So please stop needlessly injecting your speculation and biases into the comments here, please only put forward arguments which are consistent with the well-established facts as we know them. Thanks.