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That paper has not been published, despite being posted several years, and the top comment under it seems to supply a decent counter claim with evidence. My gue

That paper has not been published, despite being posted several years, and the top comment under it seems to supply a decent counter claim with evidence. My guess is it's not as accurate as to support your claim of "pure nonsense."

JackFr 4y ago
You make a fair point, but the problem is, I read the article. And it is utter bullshit, published in a fourth tier journal by a non-scientist with something to sell. “Blue zone”, “power 9”, “vitality compass” — please spare me. This is pure pseudo-scientific crap.
- ChrisLomont 4y ago
  SJR ranked the journal in the top third - not great, but not "fourth tier." And it got published, unlike your rebuttal. It's also got 170+ citations, none of which I found to claim to debunk the paper. Many of those citations are in good journals. Do you know any papers published in good journals rebutting this one? Maybe you should carefully write up your objections and publish that. You certainly are going to great lengths to claim it's crap.
  - biophysboy 4y ago
    It’s also super common to use memorable names and phrases in scientific literature/presentations. It’s common in my field (biophysics). I don’t know why “blue zone” is so pseudoscientific.
- mdp2021 4y ago
  > spare me Communicational style comes from environment, inclination, choice and target, and may suggest but not prove (low) quality of content. Many are irritated e.g. by the style (apparently very frequent in the USA), in articles and books, using the pattern "John one day left the house and a number of things happened; he had graduated there and does this for a living. Now, the science" - odd conflations of narrative and data following the sequences of a novelist instead of theoretical structures: nonetheless, they do frequently have juice to extract.
jquery 4y ago
I bet it’s a bit of column A, a little of column B. Healthy diets and lifestyles will earn you a few extra years, and fraud gets you the rest of the way.

JackFr 4y ago

You make a fair point, but the problem is, I read the article. And it is utter bullshit, published in a fourth tier journal by a non-scientist with something to sell. “Blue zone”, “power 9”, “vitality compass” — please spare me. This is pure pseudo-scientific crap.

ChrisLomont 4y ago
SJR ranked the journal in the top third - not great, but not "fourth tier." And it got published, unlike your rebuttal. It's also got 170+ citations, none of which I found to claim to debunk the paper. Many of those citations are in good journals. Do you know any papers published in good journals rebutting this one? Maybe you should carefully write up your objections and publish that. You certainly are going to great lengths to claim it's crap.
- biophysboy 4y ago
  It’s also super common to use memorable names and phrases in scientific literature/presentations. It’s common in my field (biophysics). I don’t know why “blue zone” is so pseudoscientific.
mdp2021 4y ago
> spare me Communicational style comes from environment, inclination, choice and target, and may suggest but not prove (low) quality of content. Many are irritated e.g. by the style (apparently very frequent in the USA), in articles and books, using the pattern "John one day left the house and a number of things happened; he had graduated there and does this for a living. Now, the science" - odd conflations of narrative and data following the sequences of a novelist instead of theoretical structures: nonetheless, they do frequently have juice to extract.

jquery 4y ago

I bet it’s a bit of column A, a little of column B. Healthy diets and lifestyles will earn you a few extra years, and fraud gets you the rest of the way.