‘People are caught up in magical thinking’: was the oldest woman in the world a fraud?

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/nov/30/oldest-woman-in-the-world-magical-thinking
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Jean Calumet was supposedly 122 when she died. However, a Russian scientist has long-claimed that “Jean” is actually Jean’s daughter, impersonating her mother.

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