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Deaths of despair / Effective altruism (Angus Deaton)

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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Are You Saying That Vaccines Don't Save Lives?

Life expectancy went up by leaps and bounds in poor countries after the Second World War largely because of these external innovations. But you know if you're trying to provide health care is incredibly difficult. And so it's a very difficult problem but I think interventions from the outside are likely to have unmeasured side effects. Those side effects are never taken into account in randomized controlled trials either.

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