‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman
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.”
Wow so if I'm not mistaken, the takeaway is that committing pension fraud significantly increases longevity!
Causation doesn't produce correlation!
That was really interesting, thanks for posting
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.