Comment by 411111111111111

> Americans have lost about two years of their life, basically because of their group mistrust of medical science.

I don't think that's the actual reason for the decline, it's more likely another effect of the real cause. While I'm not American, it's the same story all over the world: our diet keeps getting worse, there is plastic everywhere which breaks down into micro plastics which end up in the water we drink etc. We're preparing our food with carcinogenic utensils (everything "non stick") and all of our western societies went from a healthy worker/academic career choice into mostly just getting exploited by the established players.

There have been a lot of societal changes since the post WW2 times, and summing that up into "losing trust in medical science" is a very confusing take, especially if you consider all the medical professionals that spread outright lies to profit. (The person that started the antivax movement was a doctor as a notorious example)

And drug companies that sold bad medicines (knowingly!) As they judged the cost of liability to be lower then the cost of not selling the drug.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that any of these things are causing this decline either. Our societies have just changed too much since to make any confident claims about their impact.