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Life expectancy rise in rich countries slows down: took 30 years to prove

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135 points andsoitis | 3 comments | 15 Oct 24 13:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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lazerpants ◴[15 Oct 24 20:01 UTC] No.41852525[source]▶
Our organization (the American Federation for Aging Research) is hosting a webinar with Jay Olshansky (author of the paper) and Andrew Scott, a leading economist in longevity to discuss Jay's results on 10/22.

The gist is that this isn't quite as cut and dry as it may seem.

We also paid to make the Nature Aging paper open access.

Event: https://www.afar.org/events/webinar-lifeexpectancy-1

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1. throwup238 ◴[15 Oct 24 20:03 UTC] No.41852546[source]▶
> We also paid to make the Nature Aging paper open access.

That’s awesome! Did you make a deal with the authors to pay for the fee during publication or is this something anyone can do by approaching the journal itself?

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2. lazerpants ◴[15 Oct 24 20:19 UTC] No.41852688[source]▶
Thanks! I wasn't directly involved in that discussion, but I imagine anyone can do it. It is a requirement for some grants and for some research funders.

Edit: if you need to know I would just ask the editor if it's an option

3. seydor ◴[16 Oct 24 04:46 UTC] No.41855698[source]▶
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