Talk:Javier Pereira (longevity claimant)

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This article seems to generate a lot of revision. I started it because Pereira was in the newspapers and various magazines fairly often in the mid 1950s, and not because I think it likely he was really as old as claimed. While that's a very remote possibility, it seems more likely to me that he was about 100 years old -- born around 1850 -- when he came to notice and that he probably had a grandfather or great-grandfather of the same name born in 1789, which would account for earlier records and his ability to tell stories about the South American war against Spain and various Indian problems. If the grandfather lived to near 100, he'd have died about 1889, giving their lives sufficient overlap. Calypsoparakeet 20:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

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Which scientists have specifically stated this case is a longevity myth? (Although it 99.99% likely is.)--Calypsoparakeet 01:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)