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Despite common folk wisdom about "nine lives", field data strongly suggests that no individual living on an all-mouse diet has survived beyond age 40.

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This reminds me of a cartoon I saw recently: “Every single person that confuses correlation and causation ends up dying!”

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Yes, but what if the mice are living inside houses instead of in a field?

For starters, house mice are ~certain to contain far more microplastics, PFAS, and other pollutants and toxins than free-range field* mice.

*As in "natural, organic field". Not a field of weeds growing atop some old toxic waste dump.

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