This is the Weight and Healthcare newsletter! If you like what you are reading, please consider subscribing and/or sharing! One of the most common arguments for the weight-loss paradigm is that being higher weight is corelated with many health issues, and so body size must be the problem and weight loss must be the answer.
I particularly like this post, since I am a cis-female with "male" pattern baldness -- there are a lot more of us than people think, since most (like me) wear hairpieces or wigs to cover up our hair loss.
But quite apart from that, thank you for laying this out so thoroughly and so usefully. I've used the correlation between baldness and heart disease in conversations in the past, to try to get people to see that a *correlation* between, say, fatness and diabetes does not prove that fatness *causes* diabetes, but I've never done this kind of full thought-experiment with it. I will now!
I particularly like this post, since I am a cis-female with "male" pattern baldness -- there are a lot more of us than people think, since most (like me) wear hairpieces or wigs to cover up our hair loss.
But quite apart from that, thank you for laying this out so thoroughly and so usefully. I've used the correlation between baldness and heart disease in conversations in the past, to try to get people to see that a *correlation* between, say, fatness and diabetes does not prove that fatness *causes* diabetes, but I've never done this kind of full thought-experiment with it. I will now!