[4wsn]

The alleged effect.

> Every year of private renting was associated with an extra 2.4 weeks of aging on average.

The alleged solution.

> Our finding that renting social housing was no different to outright ownership lends weight to calls for greater support for social housing.

As for

> I suspect the authors are across your concerns and perhaps understand them as well, if not better, than you might.

This study is in the same category as any other study undertaken in service of a political goal. The authors would not publish a study that disagrees with their politics anymore than cigarette companies prior to the days of public awareness would have published a study showing cigarettes as anything other than utterly harmless.

The days of expecting any semi-coherent audience to stop thinking and accept everything that follows as fact as soon as the words "scientific research" and "professor" appear are long, long gone.

[hilux]

Unfortunately, following the recent exposés of Dan Ariely, Francesca Gino, and so many others, I have to agree.

The "science" that makes news articles is particularly likely to be snake oil for funding and clicks. Not all of it, of course, but we are in no position to choose the honest ones.

_Science Fictions_ by Stuart Ritchie is a very readable and informative book on the state of bad scientific research.

[defrost]

> As for ...

I haven't supported or citicised the paper and its conclusions, I've merely pointed out the methodology in the face of a question regarding how these studies are conducted and demonstrated ignorance.

With your response you're not doing any better than the opinion at the top of this thread.

I'd prefer to read a critique based on addressing the specifics of the data and the analysis rather than opinions in service of a political goal.