Originally Posted by Zeropoint1:
“It's rather convenient that all these extremely old people live in countries where records won't exactly be trustworthy.”
Er, the two verified oldest ever people were French and American and the current official worlds oldest person is Italian!
Originally Posted by HenryGarten:
“If you look at the longest lived say 50 people, it is not dominated, by recent entries.
Only 16 people have ever seen a 116th birthday
Only 6 have seen a 117th birthday.”
And only two have seen a 118th birthday
It's also suspicious that the claimant is male whereas all the official longevity record holders were or are female.