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submitted 7 hours ago by Wursi@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 hours ago

It's money.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

Everytime I see shit like this it just reminds me that the population doesn’t understand survival bias.

It could work against you, someone with that kind of health might have had the luxury of being resilient against shit that can totally harm you.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Good genes. That seems to play the biggest role.

[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

And having a shit load of money. That helps tremendously

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago

Without surgery. And there's also a superhealer gene that allows some people to chain smoke without dying early.