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New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely
(lafollette.wisc.edu)
this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2025
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The reality of living over 100 is that most of the studies on ageing are just poorly done. Epidemiologists are a meme to the biomedical research community. These are the clowns that triggered the Mediterrean diet, the Okinowa diet, etc. without validating the ages of the people being studied. A decade later: people live longer in regions of Greece or Italy because of familes engaged in pension fraud, and Japanese longetivity was tied to poor record restoration by the US army. One guy figured out people >100 in Japan somehow were born on the 1st or 15th of every month.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/12/25/lifestyle/lifespan-japan-data/
I once got downvoted to hell on Reddit for pointing this out. People really want to live long, and there's a lot of motivated reasoning around it.