[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.