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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The widespread adoption of indoor plumbing was a consequence of economic changes happening through Europe at the time and happened *alongside* germ theory etc but not really *because* of it
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I mean this is exactly what I think Noah is talking about, this impulse to give credit to expertise and say if something improved in society it's because a bunch of smart people got together and planned it, which is much less common than people think
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Absolutely. People were concerned about miasma, not germs, when they stopped sleeping next to their chamber pots.
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I’m going to stop arguing with people who are speculating with no data. The need for mass indoor plumbing happened because of public health concerns.
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