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by epx 718 days ago
They have and a lot.
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Source your data.

For example, the lowest suicide rate in the US in over a century (and ever, as long as records were kept) happened in 2000.

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-us-suicide-rates-since-19...

And today the rate is higher than in 1900 and raising. Sounds like whatever we did in the 1950-1980 worked extremely well and what we've been doing since hasn't.

That is, obviously, not a graph of suicide trending upwards as a result of an intervention that occurred at roughly 1900.
And it is also not a chicken. What does that have to do with suicides increasing in the last 25 years after falling for 50.
I don't know, but it sure won't have anything to do with sanitizing fairy tales, which is what we're talking about here.
You should probably read the reply above mine.

Let me quote it for you in case tree based navigation is too difficult:

>For example, the lowest suicide rate in the US in over a century (and ever, as long as records were kept) happened in 2000.

If you'd like more context, which I understand can be difficult to remember after reading two 20 word posts, I'd be happy to provide it.