I can't say I've seen any evidence on this, but I do speak from personal experience - prior to my MPH, I was a conservative voter, and then I realised that most of my beliefs were based on factual inaccuracies about how the world works 
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(For a fun and confusing note to the international followers, being a conservative voter in Australia meant that I was voting for the Liberal party who are our mainstream right-wing group)
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Could be elements of reverse causation, also.
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Have you read the Flegal piece?
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Nope I have not
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? I don’t see any implied causation in that (or any possible “why do X people do Y”) question. I don’t see any implicit claim about the ‘why’ in that statement. It seems purely a question about the ‘why’. Is there something I’m missing?
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The funny thing is that if govts listened to public health experts they'd actually spend less on healthcare, bc prevention is almost always cheaper.
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This is dangerously naive.
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My guess: both, being “left wing“ and being interested in public health, might depend on a common cause: being able to feel empathy.https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1406952230880628739?s=19 …
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