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Ig Nobel prizes 2024: The unexpected science that won this year (www.newscientist.com)

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[–] tardigrada 2 points 2 months ago

Here comes Saul Justin Newman: 'The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the world (the other 20% are from countries you can’t meaningfully analyse). Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. In the US there are over 500 of these people; seven have a birth certificate. Even worse, only about 10% have a death certificate.