[chengiz]

Do you know why people in Okinawa and Sardinia have great longevity? Is it Ikigai, or living simple village life, or eating maggot infested cheese? No, it's because of lack of record keeping, specifically families keeping people "alive" to collect pensions:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v3

[csallen]

Response from some blue zone demographers to the paper you linked: https://www.bluezones.com/news/are-supercentenarian-claims-b...

It begins, "The pre-print is not new data, research, or a study. It is a theory – an opinion paper that the author has been unable to get published in any scientific journal or peer-reviewed publication. The original version of the paper was released as a pre-print in 2019 and still has not been properly published, meaning the theories have never passed any scientific peer review."

And it continues with a point-by-point rebuttal.

Worth taking a look at.

[chengiz]

Blue zones demographers from https://bluezones.com rebut research against blue zones? Color me convinced!

[csallen]

So your method of assessing the veracity of information has nothing to do with the information itself, but is entirely based upon who it's from?

[chengiz]

Not entirely. But I do know the meaning of vested in vested interests.

[csallen]

If someone tells me 2+2=4 or even 2+2=5, it won't matter to me what their vested interests are, unless I don't know arithmetic.

[chengiz]

Same. But I don't conflate Koolaid with arithmetic.

[devoutsalsa]

It could be pension fraud!

“Most Age Records are Pension Fraud, Scientist Says” => https://youtu.be/VpwXswyt-zg?si=EyT1KpxA0JY7kk17

[asimpletune]

Nonetheless it’s not uncommon to see 80 year olds riding bikes here in Italy.

[nilawafer]

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[chengiz]

"Recently been shown" by the paper I linked to.