Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine (opens in new tab)

Your politics could be making you ill, and conservatives are dying at significantly higher rates than liberals, according to a in Nature. Over the past decade, a health gap has emerged in the United States. While extensive research has examined how factors like income and education shape health outcomes, political ideology has largely been overlooked—until now. A paper published last month analyzed individual health data from a long-term study of a large, representative sample of Americans ac...