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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 6, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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That’s fascinating, but I wish it had data points from the mid/late 20th century. If the curve flattens out by the 70s, with ubiquitous refrigeration and antibiotics and other technologies, it wouldn’t actually contradict the OP.

(I suspect the curve does not, in fact, flatten at that point.)