It is fun to document spottings of the Blue Zone Fallacy - in which researchers mistook welfare fraud for human longevity - to understand where this fallacy might have misled our common knowledge. Latest spotting: Why We Sleep.
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He refers to Greek islands where they practice both biphasic sleep and welfare fraud as evidence that biphasic sleep supports longevity. In defense of the author, it was widely believed that the welfare fraud was actually increased life expectancy when the book was written.
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But given that Ikaria has a nickname of the place where people forget to die, maybe locals have always been relatively aware of the ongoing pension fraud and have long viewed outside health researchers as pests that need to be further misled.
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