Left Handed Life Expectancy

Factual Questions
1

I keep hearing here and there the ‘fact’ that Left handed people’s life average life expectancy is LESS than right handed people’s.

The amount ranges from 5 to 10 years each time I hear it. But no-one ever quotes a RELIABLE source for this information.

Can anyone explain (if true, it could be an old wives tale) what scientific reason there is behind this?

2

The man himself has covered this one.

3

I don’t believe it’s true.

Here is a twin study showing no survival disadvantage for left-handedness.

Here is a re-do of the baseball player study (which was the one that originally suggested that lefties die sooner). If anything, the newer study showed righties die sooner!

4

I posted many abstracts and specific citations in this thread that specifically addressed the many lies spread about left-handers by the mass media.