In Saturday’s journal, I wrote a notice about a startling claim: that the Jeanne Calment, who stands in the Guinness book of records as the most persistent man ever after having died at 122 years of age, in fact, is a scam. The Russian scientist Nikolai Zak claims that it was actually joan’s daughter Yvonne, who died in that time, and that she then ”just” was 99 years old.
Yvonne would have taken over his mom’s identity in the beginning of the 1930s, in order to avoid paying inheritance tax. No one in the surrounding area reacted to the matter will depend on the family, which was always a bit enstörig, then moved into the city of Arles, from the countryside.
a series of circumstantial evidence. To Jeanne as the old had a different eye color than what she is, according to their passports, had as a young man is one of them. But no definitive evidence, it is not, which has not prevented the news from ilsnabbt spread. Most people who took up the story as did I; published, but highlighted doubts with words like ”allegedly” and ”may”.
it is such a funny thing! If it is a scam – imagine sitting there as an old woman, trapped by his fraud and forced to play the role of the world’s oldest man to the last.
But maybe all not so innocent anyway.
the Washington Post an article with at the very least, klickbetande title: ” The world’s oldest person record stood for decades. Then came a Russian conspiracy theory” (12/1).
Damn, those Russians, that is. First, orchestrated the Brexit, then got the Trump selected. Now, they take on a defenseless woman!
the Reading will be somewhat of a disappointment, in any case, when it comes to evidence that it is about a proposals påverkanskampanj. Some murky wording, that this is an expression of the Russian attempt to attack France, the EU and the West in the large pop up, but not much more than that.
to be interesting enough as it is. In the background are, writes the Mail, an infected forskningsstrid. Long ago, Russia has been ejected from the western organizations devoted to the study of long-lived people, after allegations of just cheating. In particular suspicious has been claims made about the georgians who should have been up to 160 years old. It is, therefore, why the russians are now going to counter-attack – claim some of the outraged French and american researchers which the newspaper talked with.
But Nikolai Zak may also defend against the accusations. He believes that the attacks on his study is rooted in anti-Russian paranoia, and a dose of hurt French pride. Zak has only done what other scientists should have done much earlier, he argues for yourself.
the Peak of the confusion, in other words. A Russian conspiracy, or anti-Russian fantasies, or just a reminder of how shaky but spectacular research too easy to get wings in the boundless new media climate?
they have eyes in the cross. One thing is sure: there is apparently no subject is too small and seemingly harmless for not being able to turn into an arena of conflict in this contemporary world that is so obsessed with their conflicts.
