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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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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Arthur is talking specifically about the period in question!
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