UCL demography experts wins satirical Ig Nobel award

Dr Saul Justin Newman (IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society) discovered some people with the longest lives hailed from places with poor recordkeeping. He investigated data on humans who live longer than most after debunking two scientific papers about extreme human ageing.

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