â??The ultimate [baby] boomer game today,â? writes Timothy Egan, â??is competitive longevity.â? He was commenting in an op-ed on notable editor/writer Michael Kinsleyâ??s self-documented struggle with Parkinsonâ??s disease. (New York Times, May 20). A religious clue to the game showed up in a Washington Post (May 16) article by Julie Zauzmer: â??A Possible Benefit of Going to Church: A 33 Percent Chance of Living Longer.â?
Sightings cannot fail to follow up on such clues, especially when the Post piece is grounded in a scientific source, none other than an issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). As if the attention of JAMA was not credentialing enough, one can invoke the source of the statistic-enriched dataâ??the Harvard School of Public Healthâ??which JAMA notes in an article co-authored by Tyler VanderWeele reporting on his and his colleaguesâ?? work.
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