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U.S. Life Expectancy Fell By 1.5 Years In 2020, The Biggest Drop Since WW II:
Life expectancy in the United States declined by a year and a half in 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which says the coronavirus is largely to blame.
COVID-19 contributed to 74% of the decline in life expectancy from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
It was the largest one-year decline since World War II, when life expectancy dropped by 2.9 years between 1942 and 1943. Hispanic and Black communities saw the biggest declines.
[...] "The range of factors that play into this include income inequality, the social safety net, as well as racial inequality and access to health care," Curtis said.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 22 2021, @02:00PM
The problem is inherent to large organizations. Not even necessarily religious ones - think about Apple's notorious "reality distortion field." Or any number of non religious Republicans that keep insisting that covid isn't real.
Rabbinic tradition is all about study and critical thinking. Most of the Hebrew Bible is written so that it is just difficult enough that you have to think about it to understand it.
When Thomas doubted Jesus had been resurrected, Jesus told him to touch his body, feel his wounds. Almost all of the resurrection story - the most important thing in Christianity by far - is about people believing their eyes after seeing Jesus, when they knew he must be dead.
Islam, honestly I don't know enough about the Koran.
But the religion isn't against critical thinking. Only the churches have made it so, because their power on Earth depends on it.