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[MaximilianKohler]

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Dr Newman showed that the highest rates of achieving extreme old age are predicted by high poverty, the lack of birth certificates, and fewer 90-year-olds. Poverty and pressure to commit pension fraud were shown to be excellent indicators of reaching ages 100+ in a way that is ‘the opposite of rational expectations’.

In addition, Dr Newman revealed numerous flaws in the supposedly validated cases of the world’s oldest people, including the world’s oldest man, who was shown to have not one but three birthdays.

Finally, Dr Newman debunked the popular idea of ‘Blue Zones’ as regions of exceptional longevity and healthy lifestyles. Many, if not most of the centenarians in the ‘Blue Zone’ have turned out to be alive in the government records but were deceased in reality. Using extensive government data and surveys, Dr Newman showed that most of the dietary and lifestyle claims behind the so-called ‘Blue Zone’ regions of high longevity are not supported by any independent data.

For example, despite vegetables and sweet potatoes being promoted as key components of the Okinawan ‘Blue Zone’ diets, according to the Japanese government, Okinawans eat the least vegetables and sweet potatoes in Japan and have the highest body mass index.

Dr Newman has previously disproved a 2016 study published in Nature on extreme-age research that accidentally rounded off a substantial amount of its data to zero. His peer-reviewed paper demonstrated that if corrected, this error eliminated the core findings claiming that human lifespan had a defined limit.

 

[adamh]

It happens in the states too. Someone dies, is quietly buried out back and the checks keep coming. Sometimes it goes on for decades. There is credible evidence that jeanne calment the allegedly oldest surviving person actually assumed the identity of her mother who had just died. The mother and her pension were the only sources of income and the family was desperate. So she pretended to be her mother who didn't go out much and the checks kept coming. Later she did another fraud getting an annual payment for her apartment until she died. Her claimed age was so high that insurers gave her only a few years to live but she lived decades longer and bankrupted the buyers 

[Mind]

I didn't read the paper, but did Dr. Newman find that longevity was just random around the world? No particular spots with higher longevity? This would seem odd, since longevity has been tied to genetics as well.