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> “You need a citation to tell you that Chile is a different culture than the USA? What?”

You would need a citation to demonstrate that the Chilean public has a substantively different lifestyle from the American public that could causally generate such a lower life expectancy in the US, rather than just making it up.

> “I mean some things seem obvious to me. So are you arguing I’m wrong and Chile people have lifestyles that are as healthy as people in the USA? I mean I think thats obvious but atleast this seems like a reasonable thing to want to object to. I would have no problem exploring the data here.”

Assuming something as self-evidently true without evidence isn’t how science is done, buddy.

> “Doesnt work that way buddy. When a chart explicitly abandons known best practices, and therefore would fail a peer-review, it is not on the peer reviewers to prove why a possible/likely scenario is true or not. The fact that a reasonable scenario is not normalized is itself a failure of the original assertation. It is the job of a person posting data to show they reasonably accounted for counter-explanations. It is not on me to prove something they didnt account for is true or not.”

I didn’t ask you about the chart, I asked you to defend your own claim, which you evidently can’t or won’t do, because the neoliberal explanation just *fees* right to you.