This book is a darkly comic journey into gerontology - where morality is irrelevant, studies are just propaganda, and the "oldest people in the world" all turn out to be dead.
Our pathological fascination with death and dying has created an opportunity for all kinds of deception in gerontology—an area of study that Pathology reveals to be full of misleading claims, false assumptions, and outright deception.The World's Oldest Man is fake, the Blue Zones are disproven, and five decades of research on human longevity is useless. What begins as a petition to exhume a famous body turns into entertaining, if enlightening, mayhem as Saul Justin Newman sets out to discover what's rotten and what's real in the science of death.
