‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
theconversation.com
Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

“Okinawa in Japan is one of these [blue] zones. There was a Japanese government review in 2010, which found that 82% of the people aged over 100 in Japan turned out to be dead. The secret to living to 110 was, don’t register your death.”

“Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.”

  • @[email protected]English
    5•2 months ago

    How did you find out about your award?

    I picked up the phone after slogging through traffic and rain to a bloke from Cambridge in the UK. He told me about this prize and the first thing I thought of was the lady who collected snot off of whales and the levitating frog. I said, “absolutely I want to be in this club”.

    I love this. Speaking as an early career scientist, I think I’d rather win an ig-Nobel prize than a real Nobel.