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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.



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


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?


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


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.


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




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