Also, the study size was about 3.5k, which is hardly reliable.
Also welsh, which has a higher suicide rate than WWII kamikaze squadrons.
people were wondering if it was some kind of suicide cult?
Presumably, the people who wondered this had never actually been to Bridgend, since a couple of hours there is quite sufficient to explain the phenomenon.
How come kids at school weren't keeling over dead all the time? I mean, peanut brittle was all the rage.
It's simply a matter of auto-suggestion. We're convincing people they'll die if they eat a peanut, so they do.
risk of anaphalaxis due to peanuts led the NHS to offer advice to parents not to give their young kids peanut products, which meant that - not being exposed to it - more kids actually developed the allergy.
I don't know how anyone in the states survives with a peanut allergy. Virtually everything they eat has peanut butter in it.
you die, though.