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The comments in this thread are amusing because everyone is confident they know the cause of this (complex and multifaceted) issue and of course each of their explanations is different.

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Let's see what we got so far:

- Infectious Diseases

- Sexual Habits

- Obesity

- Agricultural Chemicals

- Dietary Shifts

- Food Processing & Storage

- Microplastics and Forever Chemicals

- Environmental & Indoor Pollution

- Sleep Deprivation

- Covid Vaccines

That is quite insane. When things become hard or impossible to understand, even hardcore atheists turn towards secular religion.

all of the above are bad idk if cancer inducing but yeah

I don’t understand why this is insane? Why do you expect a single cause?

The number of different reasons that people come up with (and with conviction in many cases) is insane IMO, not any single reply or commenter (I hope).

These are all examples where commenters have confidently said that this specific thing is the cause (independent of any data). It is a little odd on a story about how the actual experts are working hard to understand the (likely multifaceted) causes of this trend that there are oodles of people just declaring "oh it is obviously this."

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