just saw someone saying trust in science because life expectacy in middle ages was 35. life expectancy was not 35. infant mortality lowered expectancy a good bit (not that much!) but once you got past infancy people lived for spans we'd recognize today for the most part.
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Thousands of years after indoor plumbing I mean, you can disagree, and you can define science much more broadly such that all human civilizations have had it for all of recorded history But then you're really talking about something quite different
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Noah is not taking about thousands of years of plumbing. He’s talking about modern widespread indoor plumbing which increases life expectancy.
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I feel like you’re being contrarian here for the sake of being contrarian. Nothing you’re saying contradicts my claim. We have indoor plumbing because we learned about germ theory & sanitation being important. We implemented it with engineering.
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No, we didn't, indoor plumbing as a concept predates germ theory by thousands of years, and was generally considered desirable for reasons not directly related to germs (getting away from unpleasant smells and making life more convenient)
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