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Dr Greger Reveals The ’10 Blue Zones Food Guidelines’ To Lengthen Your Life (plantbasednews.org)

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[–] dustpuppy 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There have been several mag/news articles - that seemed thoroughly respectable - saying that the original author was a victim of widespread inaccuracies in the actual death records of all the bluezones, along with widespread fraud in old-age and retirement payments. Okinawa was especially corrupt in this area.

[–] jerkface 4 points 3 weeks ago

I took a peek. I think you saw a lot of coverage in non-scientific press because one Dr Saul Justin Newman was awarded an ig nobel (not a terribly serious, academically rigorous award) and the non-scientific press did what they do. I think you may be putting too much weight on what appears to be a set of statistical arguments being made by one researcher to say it's been "thoroughly debunked", but I also see that it was never a very well-informed observation in the first place.