> Yvonne Calment is imputed to have committed this fraud starting in 1934. But France as one of the global powers has a very low crime rate in the 30s and the

> Yvonne Calment is imputed to have committed this fraud starting in 1934. But France as one of the global powers has a very low crime rate in the 30s and the Calments are notable from their region not random unknown. If you think about it, the whole thing doesn't make much sense. Yvonne Calment should somehow have decided to replace her mother for sixty years including twenty while her husband was still alive for unclear reasons (a far fetched motive involving taxes was only found after Zay started pushing his theory) successfuly fooling the French state. The whole thing doesn't make any sense. I don't understand how Zay was published (I mean, I do, it took him a decade to find a bad enough journal but it's sad) and I don't know why serious people are wasting their time arguing with him. At this point, I just wish the genetic analysis were done to close the whole thing.