> Link found on Drudge.com:
>
> http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/entertainment/afp/article.html?s=asia/headlines/000102/entertainment/afp/Nepali_man_claims_to_be_167_years-old__reports.html
>
> Sorry if this is old news. ;)
Drudge ought to know better. Occasional claims of 150+ are made by
people in remote places, and without exception, further investigation
always reveals that the secret of their logevity is bad recordkeeping.
The oldest persons with legitimate claims are around 120. I would
not be terribly surprized if someone was found somewhere to be 130.
Beyond that, such claims should be assumed fraudulent without proof.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:01:57 MDT