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by simon_ 5897 days ago
frankly, the probability of fraud by the researchers or reporters strikes me as many orders of magnitude higher than the probability that he can fast indefinitely without dying.
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Yeah, it would take a lot of trustworthy eyewitnesses, video evidence, etc to convince me of this claim. Having some measure of mental control over your heartbeat or body temperature is interesting; having your cells function long-term without calories to burn and without creating waste products that need to be removed by water....

Well, that's quite a claim. I'd count it more likely that he's a cyborg from the future.