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by hombre_fatal 489 days ago
Someone's claim in a 1929 blog satisfies your epistemic standards?

Most ancient mummies also have atherosclerosis.

Fortunately we can run the test today to see what causes these things, not regress to story-telling about what might be true because we want to believe it.

"Coherent with our biology" is just going to cash out into yet more story-telling over evidence.

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No the in depth multi year longitudinal reference study on the inuit that was referenced meets my standards