09:4209:42, 24 December 2022diffhist+8
Jeanne Calment
this entry needs rewriting from scratch. See "Jeanne Calment, the Secret of Longevity Unravelled" (vols 1, 2 and 3 (Oct, Nov. 2022) by Nikolay Zak and Philip GibbsTag: Reverted
08:5808:58, 2 April 2021diffhist−1
Jeanne Calment
Financial chicanery is common. Living into one's thirteenth decade is vanishingly rare. The selective destruction of the evidence is a huge red flag...Tag: Undo
1 April 2021
19:4019:40, 1 April 2021diffhist−1
Jeanne Calment
the selective destruction of photographic and documentary evidence on the alleged instructions of the claimant is unfortunateTags: UndoReverted
07:4107:41, 24 February 2021diffhist+2,752
Jeanne Calment
"No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood, and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity." (Guinness)Tags: UndoReverted
07:0807:08, 16 February 2021diffhist+1
Jeanne Calment
alas the selective destruction of photographic and documentary evidence, supposedly on the instructions of the 120-year-old claimant, is a huge red flag.Tag: Reverted
10:0810:08, 29 May 2020diffhist−22
Sentientism
Not really a conflict of interest. The original sentientist was Gautama Buddha ("May all that have life be delivered from suffering”). But perhaps a "neutral point of view" calls for a Responses section covering advocates of racism and speciesism?
21:5121:51, 28 August 2019diffhist+351
Jeanne Calment
"'Docteur Polar' se souvient qu’il arrivait à Jeanne Calment de s’emmêler les pinceaux entre son mari et son père, sa mère et sa grand-mère. Confusion banale, pensait-il alors. Ou bien arnaqueuse rattrapée par ses mensonges?" (https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/02/14/jeanne-calment-a-t-elle-eu-122-ans-enquete-sur-la-folle-hypothese-de-deux-chercheurs-russes_5423178_3224.html)Tag: Undo
22:0122:01, 8 August 2019diffhist+75
Jeanne Calment
"Apparently, Jeanne decided to destroy the photos and other documents when she was requested to send them to the archives of Arles" (https://www.newsweek.com/did-worlds-oldest-person-lie-about-her-age-russian-mathematician-thinks-so-1280637)Tag: Undo
09:4209:42, 24 December 2022diffhist+8
Jeanne Calment
this entry needs rewriting from scratch. See "Jeanne Calment, the Secret of Longevity Unravelled" (vols 1, 2 and 3 (Oct, Nov. 2022) by Nikolay Zak and Philip GibbsTag: Reverted
08:5808:58, 2 April 2021diffhist−1
Jeanne Calment
Financial chicanery is common. Living into one's thirteenth decade is vanishingly rare. The selective destruction of the evidence is a huge red flag...Tag: Undo
1 April 2021
19:4019:40, 1 April 2021diffhist−1
Jeanne Calment
the selective destruction of photographic and documentary evidence on the alleged instructions of the claimant is unfortunateTags: UndoReverted
07:4107:41, 24 February 2021diffhist+2,752
Jeanne Calment
"No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood, and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity." (Guinness)Tags: UndoReverted
07:0807:08, 16 February 2021diffhist+1
Jeanne Calment
alas the selective destruction of photographic and documentary evidence, supposedly on the instructions of the 120-year-old claimant, is a huge red flag.Tag: Reverted
10:0810:08, 29 May 2020diffhist−22
Sentientism
Not really a conflict of interest. The original sentientist was Gautama Buddha ("May all that have life be delivered from suffering”). But perhaps a "neutral point of view" calls for a Responses section covering advocates of racism and speciesism?
21:5121:51, 28 August 2019diffhist+351
Jeanne Calment
"'Docteur Polar' se souvient qu’il arrivait à Jeanne Calment de s’emmêler les pinceaux entre son mari et son père, sa mère et sa grand-mère. Confusion banale, pensait-il alors. Ou bien arnaqueuse rattrapée par ses mensonges?" (https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2019/02/14/jeanne-calment-a-t-elle-eu-122-ans-enquete-sur-la-folle-hypothese-de-deux-chercheurs-russes_5423178_3224.html)Tag: Undo
22:0122:01, 8 August 2019diffhist+75
Jeanne Calment
"Apparently, Jeanne decided to destroy the photos and other documents when she was requested to send them to the archives of Arles" (https://www.newsweek.com/did-worlds-oldest-person-lie-about-her-age-russian-mathematician-thinks-so-1280637)Tag: Undo