with high crime, noise and vandalism are biologically more than a decade ol der than those who do not, according to a study led by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh. The findings were published online today in PLOS One."
ad news, being rich in a highly unequal society still puts you behind even the poor in more equal societies.
industrial (but highly unequal) country.
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to one side for a bit to go bat for more inequality. No doubt they'll conv ince John Larkin. He's sweet and gullible, which won't make him live any lo nger.
gth in white blood cells of 2,902 Dutch individuals participating in the Ne therlands Study of Depression and Anxiety and determined the quality of the neighborhoods in which they resided using measures of perceived neighborho od disorder, fear of crime and noise."
John Larkin thinks that the case for anthropogenic global warming is junk s cience, but takes seriously the crap that Anthony Watts posts for the denia list propaganda machine.
His judgement in this area is rather less than reliable.
Not true. We aren't in any kind of New Age, and most published research isn 't garbage. Sturgeons Law does apply - 90% of everything is garbage - but i n scientific research the 90% isn't so much actually wrong, rather it's unh elpful, in that the work could have been done more carefully, on more varie d and better chosen samples, and the results could have been analysed more intelligently.
This is all the kind of observation that's a lot easier to make in hindsigh t, after someone has done the job in the way that you would have done if yo u'd known enough about the problems before you discovered them by trying to tackle them
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Science is a co-operative and collaborative task. The scientists doing the work try to present it a way that makes it look good to their colleagues. S ometimes the people presenting work pay a little too much attention to maki ng it look impressive, and rather too little attention to the core task of informing their colleagues.
There's also the difficulty that the problems to be solved are - to some ex tent - selected on the basis that they are widely perceived as interesting, rather than because there's any prospect of finding a useful solution to t he problem.
Not that one would want astronomers to restrict themselves to looking at st ars close enough to kill us if they blew up.