Alas, I hang my head in shame, I did not check PubChem.
Though, having looked now, I don't see much there about mortality outside of massive suicidal overdose attempts... but absence of evidence isn't as good as evidence of absence. And what I really want is a nice, concise debunking to point to.
On the other hand, I was finally able to find a halfway respectable source for at least the 1918 flu rumor, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/13aspirin.html, and the original paper, http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/9/1405.full. Sounds like the community is dubious, however: http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Fulltext/2010/04001/The_1918_influenza_pandemic__Lessons_for_2009_and.2.aspx cites in passing as a possible explanation for the high mortality among young adults, but says, "this possibility has not been well-studied".
(also, facebook doesn't seem to want to let me post non-anonymously)
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Though, having looked now, I don't see much there about mortality outside of massive suicidal overdose attempts... but absence of evidence isn't as good as evidence of absence. And what I really want is a nice, concise debunking to point to.
On the other hand, I was finally able to find a halfway respectable source for at least the 1918 flu rumor, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/13aspirin.html, and the original paper, http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/9/1405.full. Sounds like the community is dubious, however: http://journals.lww.com/ccmjournal/Fulltext/2010/04001/The_1918_influenza_pandemic__Lessons_for_2009_and.2.aspx cites in passing as a possible explanation for the high mortality among young adults, but says, "this possibility has not been well-studied".
(also, facebook doesn't seem to want to let me post non-anonymously)