Explaining HIV’s effect on life expectancy in Africa
There's this figure floating on Twitter: Can anyone explain why insanely HIV rates in southern Africa have absolutely no impact on life expectancy? Botswana has 10X the rate of HIV…
Actual communism is bad for your health
Saw this anti-communism meme today: (I couldn't find a higher res version.) Looks true enough, but perhaps cherry-picked. There were more than 6 countries in the ex-USSR. So I downloaded…
Cancer rates and life expectancy?
An online acquaintance asked me me to find data about these two and look for a relationship. It stands to reason that if you have a country where people die…