The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
For example, we reliably do unhealthy things that accelerates disease onset and death. We are powerless to stop doing them. Eating too much food, junk food, not exercising, smoking, excessive drinking, drugs, skipping sleep and hundreds of other vices we all have.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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we reliably do unhealthy things that accelerate decay disability disease and death both to ourselves and to our planet we will look both ways before crossing the street to avoid getting hit by a car but we will do so while smoking a cigarette every day
we humans struggle to act in our best interests we will look both ways before crossing the street to avoid getting hit by a car but we will do so while smoking a cigarette every day we do things that accelerate aging and while we may think we can stop those things anytime we want we are powerless to stop them all