You may have missed this, but…I don’t understand how William Cockerham was able to come up with these findings. I wonder how many Russian communists he actually interviewed to come up with the conclusion that a political ideology is bad for a person’s physical well being.
I think the Moscow Times article pretty well summarized that other factors, primarily income, determine how well a person eats and how much a person is likely to exercise, which are much more likely to affect one’s life span than whether or not an aging communist remembers Leonid Brezhnev’s birthday.
Do we now have to look forward to studies discovering that capitalists are greedier than socialists? Or conservatives are louder than liberals? Or liberals are more likely at parties to quote Rod McKuen than conservatives (eeewwww…)? Or that druids are more likely to worship rocks and potted plants?
Of course, given the enlightened attitude towards science in general by this administration, we have less and less of a reason to act superior about this sort of thing (as always, thank President Stupid Head and those glorious red state voters, who apparently, distinguished themselves again today when a brave man named Harry Taylor actually “spoke truth to power”).
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