There have been several mag/news articles - that seemed thoroughly respectable - saying that the original author was a victim of widespread inaccuracies in the actual death records of all the bluezones, along with widespread fraud in old-age and retirement payments. Okinawa was especially corrupt in this area.
I took a peek. I think you saw a lot of coverage in non-scientific press because one Dr Saul Justin Newman was awarded an ig nobel (not a terribly serious, academically rigorous award) and the non-scientific press did what they do. I think you may be putting too much weight on what appears to be a set of statistical arguments being made by one researcher to say it’s been “thoroughly debunked”, but I also see that it was never a very well-informed observation in the first place.
What? Are you saying Japan is lying about their longevity statistics, for example? Where have you been hearing this, out of interest?
There have been several mag/news articles - that seemed thoroughly respectable - saying that the original author was a victim of widespread inaccuracies in the actual death records of all the bluezones, along with widespread fraud in old-age and retirement payments. Okinawa was especially corrupt in this area.
I took a peek. I think you saw a lot of coverage in non-scientific press because one Dr Saul Justin Newman was awarded an ig nobel (not a terribly serious, academically rigorous award) and the non-scientific press did what they do. I think you may be putting too much weight on what appears to be a set of statistical arguments being made by one researcher to say it’s been “thoroughly debunked”, but I also see that it was never a very well-informed observation in the first place.