People have been speculating about why the 'blue zones' of the world have such old populations This preprint offers a fascinating new hypothesis - simple recording errors and/or fraud https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1 …
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Elsewhere, the highest number of supercentenarian records are associated with increased rates of smoking, drinking, and povertypic.twitter.com/5MXBfgPtGO
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If this explanation is true, it will really throw a wrench in ~decades~ of health speculation and quite a bit of research
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Seriously, there are entire schools dedicated to examining blue zones and applying them to elsewhere in the world People have spent hundreds of millions researching blue zone hypotheses This could be ~huge~pic.twitter.com/iBo76dj5vK
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