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[–] derram 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

https://archive.fo/VmNLg :

History’s oldest woman a fraud? Russian researchers claim 122-year-old Jeanne Calment was actually a 99-year-old imposter | National Post

'France’s Jeanne Calment, widely recognized as history’s oldest woman upon her death at age 122, may have actually been a 99-year-old imposter, according to an explosive new theory being pushed by Russian researchers. '

'According to a paper written by mathematician Nikolay Zak and supported by gerontologist Valery Novoselov, the real Jeanne Calment died in 1934 at the age of 59. '

'It’s preposterous.”To date, only one public claim of Calment as an imposter appears to predate the Zak paper. '

'Calment would not be the first supercentenarian whose true age has been called into question due to falsified identity. '

' However, a later investigation annulled the claim when it found that Joubert had simply been mistaken for his same-named father. '


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