But does it stand to reason?

[Wilson Gray]

You are correct, sir.

-Wilson

On 7/30/06, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On 7/30/06, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > From slash dot:
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> > [0]joeljkp writes "The New York Times has an article up discussing how
> > modern humans are 'So Big and Healthy Nowadays That Grandpa Wouldn't
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> > Know You.' Despite the hyperbole, the article makes several excellent
> > points regarding [1]the impact of antibiotics and modern medicine on
> > humans in their youth. The 'baby boomers' of today have an overall level
> > of health far higher than their parents did in middle age, and
> >
> >  _reason stands_
> >
> > that their children will have even better health to look forward
> > to." From the article: "The biggest surprise emerging from the new
> > studies is that many chronic ailments like heart disease, lung disease
> > and arthritis are occurring an average of 10 to 25 years later than they
> > used to. There is also less disability among older people today,
> > according to a federal study that directly measures it. And that is not
> > just because medical treatments like cataract surgery keep people
> > functioning. Human bodies are simply not breaking down the way they did
> > before. Even the human mind seems improved. The average I.Q. has been
> > increasing for decades, and at least one study found that a person's
> > chances of having dementia in old age appeared to have fallen in recent
> > years."
> >
> > Discuss this story at:
> >    http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=06/07/29/1727239
> >
> > Links:
> >    0. mailto:jjk3 at msstate.edu
> >    1.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/30/health/30age.html?hp&ex=1154232000&en=a8f44bc2e9318699&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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> > Big "Oops!" arnold. I looked at only a reference, not at the original.
> > The article is in today's *Sunday* Times, front page, top left corner.
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> The passage with "reason stands" is from a paraphrase by the slashdot
> correspondent, not from the NYT article.
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>
> --Ben Zimmer
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