Revisited: Are the Oldest People in the World Really That Old? – podcast

In this September episode, Madeleine Finlay speaks with Dr. Saul Newman, an interdisciplinary researcher at University College London and the University of Oxford, who recently won an Ig Nobel Prize – awarded for scientific research that ‘first makes people laugh, then makes people laugh’. they think’ – for his work showing that many claims of people living extraordinarily long lives come from places with short lifespans, without birth certificates and where administrative errors and pension fraud abound