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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by unclebucknasty on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:06PM (#10427771)
>life expectancy is still increasing...*

Yet cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, etc. are on the rise.

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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by hugh4 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:33PM (#10428012)
Cancer and Alzheimer's are on the rise because life expectancy is increasing.
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by unclebucknasty on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:11PM (#10429713)
Nope. That only explains a portion of the increase.
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by hugh4 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @11:15PM (#10430213)
Got a convincing and well-sourced statistical argument on that one?
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by unclebucknasty on Thursday October 22, 2015 @06:58AM (#10431497)
Yes. Do you for your declaration?
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by domas on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:36PM (#10428031)
Because we are better at diagnosing them then years ago. It does not mean that there are more cases of "cancer, Alzheimer's, autism, etc.". People diagnosed with Asperger syndrome would be called quirky, or plainly weird twenty years ago.
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Re:Carbon nanotubes found in children’s lungs by unclebucknasty on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:12PM (#10429717)
Nope. Doesn't explain it away. Real rates are rising.
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