After visiting Blue Zones all over the world, today, we're visiting our home country, Australia. Not because Australia has been declared a secret seventh Blue Zone, but because, months after the first six episodes of this podcast dropped, an Australian researcher, Saul J. Newman, has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize... for debunking the Blue Zones phenomenon.

In this bonus episode of Blue Zones: Revisited, we dissect Newman's award-winning paper, and the Blue Zones team's response to it.

Further Reading:

The 34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony

Newman's acceptance speech

UCL demographer's work debunking 'Blue Zone' regions

Dr. Newman has uncovered the 'secret' of living to 110 (ANU)

Scientist snares Ig Noble gong for work debunking 'Blue Zones' (RNZ)

Ig Nobel Prizewinner Debunks Supposed 'Blue Zones' (IFL)

Oxford don wins Ig Nobel Prize for debunking ageing

Supercentenarian and remarkable age records exhibit patterns indicative of clerical errors and pension fraud (the paper)

Living beyond age 105: When the improbable becomes reality

The Science Behind Blue Zones: Demographers Debunk the Critics (the response)

End government support for pro-alcohol research

Ig Nobel nominations