I love the ignoble award. This is one of the winners, Saul Justin Newman, talking about how extreme aging rallied to support the idea of "blue zones" (super-healthy places) is bogus: poor record keeping and pension fraud, mainly.

‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman

Saul Newman’s research suggests that we’re completely mistaken about how long humans live for.

I was just in one of the blue zones for holiday, and there was a big festival for billionaires advertising how much longer they would live if they lived there

This is amazing digging. My own grandmother did not actually know the year she was born, which did cause issues when she reached pension age.