[mint2]

Yeah this paper is garbage so many things would have a big influence on average lifespan - strength of workplace safety rules, smoking and alcohol use, driving mortality, regional conflicts, endemic diseases, etc etc that they didn’t include.

It’s particularly bad as an important conclusion they cite is that not including the variable they studied would lead to inaccurate modeling - while not including a ton of important variables themselves.

Maybe they did include some additional ones at first but removed them to the laughable 7 in order to get the result they wanted.

And in asia where there’s countries with large vegetarian but relatively wealthy populations they find the meat correlation doesn’t exist. Oh wow fancy that.