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Prestigious medical journals rejected stunning study on deaths among middle-aged whites

by Lenny Bernstein and Joel Achenbach

A startling new study that shows a big spike in the death rate for a large group of middle-aged whites in the United States was rejected by two prestigious medical journals, the study’s co-author, Nobel laureate Angus Deaton, said Tuesday.

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