Did you know that the incidence of cancer in the United States
has been declining for nearly 20 years? That the spread of
pornography correlates with a decline in rape? That average IQs are
going up substantially all around the world? These are just some of
the truths that are well-known to the scholars who study those
subjects but generally come as a surprise to even the best-educated
among us.
As reason reflects on how the world has changed since the magazine’s founding in May 1968, here are seven surprising pieces of unalloyed good news.
Cancer Rates Are Going Down
A 2007 American Cancer Society poll found that seven out of 10 Americans believed that the risk of dying from cancer is going up. In fact, not only have cancer death rates been declining steeply, age-adjusted cancer incidence rates have been falling for nearly two decades. That is, in nearly any age group, fewer Americans are actually coming down with cancer.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/07/15/seven-surprising-truths-about-the-world
As reason reflects on how the world has changed since the magazine’s founding in May 1968, here are seven surprising pieces of unalloyed good news.
Cancer Rates Are Going Down
A 2007 American Cancer Society poll found that seven out of 10 Americans believed that the risk of dying from cancer is going up. In fact, not only have cancer death rates been declining steeply, age-adjusted cancer incidence rates have been falling for nearly two decades. That is, in nearly any age group, fewer Americans are actually coming down with cancer.
http://reason.com/archives/2013/07/15/seven-surprising-truths-about-the-world
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