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Obesity rate in Japan: 4%
Obesity rate in the US: 40%
It’s not the fluoride.
I love the purposeful misinformation.
In Japan, their schools have a fluoride program where they rinse weekly with fluoride provided at their schools.
Their HEP B vaccination is done at 2 months. Technically, he is correct. Its not “the first day.” But he is also an idiot because it clearly is a meaningless statement meant to mislead the uneducated toilet-researches who will assume this means they don’t vaccinate kids.
It *is* anti-science to move forward without assessing Japan’s public health policies. If one wants to assert that the absence of fluoride in water and HepB vaccines are responsible for the extended lifespan of Japanese people, one must prove those specific factors are responsible. And that involves an honest examination of a metric fuck-ton of other cultural factors and health policies.
Excellent example of the single cause fallacy. There’s a hundred things they do that’s better than America but it must be the things they push for.
republicans and their shills will never act in good faith. the sooner we learn that, the better. treat them like the liars they are.
Canada does fluoridate its water and give baby’s needed vaccines and we also live longer than the US, soooooo…..?
Universal health care is a difficult problem. Of the world’s 34 most advanced nations, only 33 have figured it out.
“I don’t know the first thing about public health, but I definitely should make a tweet displaying my ignorance!”
Not many Evangelicals living in Japan either.
Japan is also more of a collectivist country, meaning people are more likely to make sacrifices for the common good… Like paying for the aforementioned universal healthcare with their tax dollars. Japan’s diet is also significantly healthier than the US diet.
The Japanese diet is also much healthier
Japan has strict gun control laws that limit the number of private gun owners and have almost completely eliminated gun deaths:
• Who can purchase a gun: Only the police and military can purchase handguns or rifles.
• Who can possess a gun: Hunters and target shooters can possess shotguns and air rifles under strict conditions.
• Licensing: To obtain a gun license, individuals must:
• Be at least 20 years old
• Pass a written test
• Conduct shooting practice
• Pass a shooting test with at least 95% accuracy
• Undergo strict background checks
• Undergo psychiatric and drug tests
• Storage: Gun owners must register their weapon with police and provide details of where their gun and ammunition is stored. The gun must be inspected by the police once a year.
• Renewal: Gun owners must renew their licenses every three years.
• Importation: The Customs Tariff Law prohibits the import of “handguns, military rifles, machine guns, guns and their ammunition and parts”.
• Number of gun shops: Each prefecture can operate a maximum of three gun shops.
• Ammunition: New magazines can only be purchased by trading in empty ones.
• Inheritance: When gun owners die, their relatives must surrender the deceased member’s firearms.
Japanese, as a whole, eat healthier than us to.
Guys, Japan is an island. I figured it out. Just make amaerica an island and we will all live longer! It’s so obvious/s
Classic correlation causation fallacy. This is so common among the antivaxx crowd.
Country comparison is difficult without fully acknowledging all the factors involved. It’s far too easy to cherry pick the parts that prove your point.
Also, Japan doesn’t have the same gun laws. However, they did have a high-profile assassination that sparked some actually change.
A quick search will reveal that Japan has a school based fluoride mouth rinsing program for preschool to middle school children for 14 years and has required the hep B vaccine for all children below 1 years old for the last 8 years. What’s the betting the only thing that changes is the number of children getting heb b and cavities going down?
Crazy how life expectancy goes up when countries provide public ways to increase your life expectancy.
Who would have thought!
Their diets are also a lot better
If the dude wants to cosplay as a scientist, then fine, present your hypothesis that the Hep B vaccine lowers life expectancy. Then present your hypothesis that fluoridation lowers life expectancy. After rigorous testing, come back with your findings.
Hepatitis B vaccine is compulsory in Japan bu it’s not done on the first day.
There is no fluoride in the water but dentists will systematically apply concentrated fluoride paste when you do a dental cleaning, which most people do about 4 times a year because it’s the recommended amount and it only costs 1800yens (about 13usd) to do.
Some schools also make kids rinse their mouth with mouth wash that contains fluoride after lunch too.
So yeah, technically what he is saying is the truth but it’s disingenuous.
You could do this with any other Japanese thing and it makes the same amount of sense
“Japan has a bunch of holidays and festivals. Japan has numerous shrines and temples regularly maintained. Japan has full meals that cost less than a few bucks. Japan has incredibly affordable hotels. Japan has soaplands. Japan has vending machines with used panties for sale. And the Japanese live 10 YEARS longer than Americans. Its not anti science to assess and update America’s stances on affordable food, access to sexual material and worshipping the old gods”
I lived there for thirteen years, had one surgery and went to various hospitals over the years. How nice is it to just walk in, hand over my card and get treated? Very nice indeed.
Japanese people don’t live almost exclusively on a diet of sugar, gluten, salt and beef fat.
“We want to be just like Japan!”
“Ok, then let’s get universal healthcare”
“No, not like that!”
Japanese don’t eat triple whoppers with cheese, a large fries, a 10piece nuggets, and a large coke for lunch like the average American. It is incredible how dumb the right wing is.