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by philegibbs 3y ago
Jeanne Calment is widely considered to have been a fraud, but not by Wikipedia of course.
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by philegibbs 3y ago
They have been working on automated ATC for a lot longer than 20 years. I worked at Eurocontrol 1991-1996 where they had been developing a system called ARC2000 since well before I arrived. As the name suggests it was intended to take over
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by philegibbs 3y ago
This summary misses a lot of recent developments in the case that were published recently in a book "Jeanne Calment, the Secret of Longevity Unravelled" New evidence includes examples of signed documents showing that her signature
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by philegibbs 3y ago
Aging does not work like height. There are several biological processes that contribute to aging so one gene mutation would not make someone live longer. We can make people taller by giving them growth hormone. If aging was as simple we wou
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by philegibbs 3y ago
The records dont confirm that there was a open casque viewing, but if there was, how recognisable is a mother vs her daughter if she just died of tuberculosis? In fact the funeral was very fast. She was buried the day after she died.
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by philegibbs 4y ago
New evidence for fraud is detailed in the book "Jeanne Calment, the Secret of Longevity Unravelled"
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by philegibbs 4y ago
A fraud
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by philegibbs 4y ago
Living seven years longer than anyone else had before, and three years longer than anyone else thirty years later is too good to be true. Evidence such as a sudden change of signature show that Jeanne Calment's daughter Yvonne had assu