"Being taller is associated with enhanced longevity, lower risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes and cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, and higher risk of some cancers"

Didn't I read just the opposite in an article on Hacker News just a few hours ago? It claimed that researchers were mistaken in the past, yet the studies cited here are from the past 10 years.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1071721/

More balanced:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....