Hasan Minhaj
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andrewalantzas7 :
It’s a misconception that the massive jump in life expectancy over the last 150 years is purely due to science or high-tech medicine. The real game-changers were basic fundamentals — clean water, sewage systems, food safety, and safer childbirth. These low-tech, public health advances drastically cut infant mortality and early death. Once those were in place, then science and medicine could extend life further. But let’s not rewrite history — it wasn’t gene editing or MRIs that took us from 35 to 75. It was soap, plumbing, and not dying in childbirth.
2025-07-28 20:54:58
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jenbarlow3 :
SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE ANTI-VAXXERS IN THE BACK
2025-07-28 16:54:01
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Syza :
What also matters once you have the science is access to UNIVERSAL healthcare.
2025-07-31 08:10:16
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Soph :
He ate with the “everything was organic” bit too
2025-07-28 15:06:33
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nicturesque :
Dont believe what Neil Degrasse Tyson say, he isnt historian. Julius Caesar died 55, Socrates died 71, Confucius died 72, Muhammad died 62, Charlemagne died 67, Issac Newton died 84, Abraham Lincoln died 56. Oh yeah they all ate organics too 🙄
2025-07-29 23:53:31
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Amandaline :
But the Bible says some of them lived to like 900
2025-07-28 19:06:34
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SandyZ :
One day our descendants will be shocked to learn that we only lived until 85.
2025-07-28 15:36:12
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Brisenburg :
Slightly misleading statistics here but I agree with his over sentiment. But to clarify, the reason the average person died at 35 in 1840, was largely due to infant mortality. Lots of kids ages 5 and below died back then. It skews the average way down. So yes, average is 35 but if you lived past the age of 5 you had a great chance of living until your 60s.
2025-07-28 17:11:12
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Bryce palmateer :
I woulda been out the first uti that hit me in 1840
2025-07-31 07:36:33
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kiki :
So Jesus dying at 33 he was kinda coming to the end of his life expectancy anyway?
2025-07-29 16:04:32
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Karbaash TV 📺 🇽🇰 ❤️ 🇸🇴 :
He's lying using math and he knows it. He could've said that infant mortality was high and that's what pulled the average down. If you survived childhood you had a high chance of living into your 60s and 70s.
2025-07-28 14:56:36
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srahbeth10 :
My OB told me after my c section that if I was born 100 years earlier I’d be dead trying to deliver. I said “plot twist doc, I’d have already been dead at 12 from appendicitis!”
2025-07-28 21:11:37
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PlayerOne :
Can’t stand him
2025-07-29 00:33:47
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ampelleg13 :
I can’t stand the question “well what did our ancestors do?” THEY HAD 8-13 kids with the hopes of at least half of that would make it to adulthood.
2025-07-28 17:25:45
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ProHotWheelsRacer :
This is a bit misleading, people back then often lived until their 60’s, 70’s and even longer, no one was dying of old age at 30-40. The reason for such shocking statistics like this is because of high infant and child mortality rates which skewed the average life expectancy down.
2025-07-31 07:56:08
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brvmsm :
Man, I could’ve been one of the lucky ones 😭
2025-07-31 08:15:05
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Melissa :
Thank you! Anti-intellectualism is a damn epidemic.
2025-07-29 01:07:10
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user129487210938521034 :
Remember: there is NO advantage for the oligarchs if people live past the age of 50. They want people to die earlier so the elderly aren’t a drain on resources that the oligarchs want to steal. If it seems like they are deliberately making it more difficult for us to access modern medicine, it’s because THEY ARE.
2025-07-31 07:39:59
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Karen Mount :
In the mid 1930’s my grandmothers son got pneumonia and was dead 2 days later. In 2007 my 2 year old daughter got severe pneumonia and was hospitalized for a week and a half - and lived. There is not a day that I’m not grateful for modern medicine. Science!
2025-07-29 03:29:36
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sailor_vie :
Depends on which society you lived in in 1840 brah
2025-07-31 07:43:45
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Colleen :
Shout out to the Islamic Golden Age… average age then was up to 75 years around 12th century. Because science.
2025-07-28 15:13:38
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Darka Mišetić :
yes, but they didn't have a house, warmth, protection from wild animals. They didn't die because they ate, but because they were attacked by animals, from the cold, etc.. Today's medicine prolongs life, but that life is of poor quality and you have to take a lot of medicine to stay alive
2025-07-31 06:31:02
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MintBrad :
Usually a fan of Neil DeGrasse Tyson, but this is myopic. Life expectancy (which is an average, not a cut off) was lower due to child and infant mortality. In the Middle Ages for example if you lived to adulthood you would likely live as long as most people today if not killed by disease or warfare. Healthy people weren’t just dead at 30 or 35 without other factors
2025-07-29 16:06:04
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Btw1400 :
Science matters EVERYWHERE.
2025-07-28 12:59:49
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NajeNovaMusic ✨ :
What he just said was not true, medicine today stops symptoms and people are the most unhealthy today. There was a specific demographic of people who lived in “caves” who didn’t live past 30. Other countries and places of people of color lived very long and healthy back then and even now. Modern science yea has helped a lot. But people were living long and healthy long before the Eurocentric doctor came along. Smh
2025-07-31 04:42:06
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