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Most of this comes from epidemiologists and public health researchers.

The articles, dry and overlooked, are gray with columns of statistics.

The earliest ones, buried in the stacks at the university, show these scientists hardly believing their own findings.

It was only because George Kaplan (1) and John Lynch (2) and their associates at the University of Michigan, for example, and Richard Wilkinson (3) at the University of Sussex all made discoveries pointing in the same odd direction that this topic wasn’t dismissed as a quirk.

We’ve always known poverty is correlated with poor health.

But separately, if you measure the inequality of any society—its shape, hierarchical or egalitarian—and if you correlate that with infant mortality, or death from violence, or life expectancy, the correlation number jumps off the page.

Now a whole book of collected reports has been published, showing the same patterns (4).

Whether researchers compare different countries, different cities or different states, steeply unequal societies ...

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