Revisited: are the world’s oldest people really that old?
Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary
researcher at University College London and the University of
Oxford, who has recently won an Ig Nobel prize – given to
scientific research that ‘first makes people laugh, and then makes
them
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In this episode from September, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Saul
Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College
London and the University of Oxford, who has recently won an Ig
Nobel prize – given to scientific research that ‘first makes people
laugh, and then makes them think’ – for his work showing that many
claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places
with short lifespans, no birth certificates, and where clerical
errors and pension fraud abound. Help support our independent
journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College
London and the University of Oxford, who has recently won an Ig
Nobel prize – given to scientific research that ‘first makes people
laugh, and then makes them think’ – for his work showing that many
claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places
with short lifespans, no birth certificates, and where clerical
errors and pension fraud abound. Help support our independent
journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod
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