I posted this story a week or so ago about Nobel prize winners living longer. Some people didn't seem to believe the study and now it seems that even some Nobel Prize winners are questioning the results.
Winning the Nobel Prize can add almost a year and a half to a laureate's life, two British economists say. But though he's 81, Harvard physicist Roy J. Glauber, a 2005 Nobelist, isn't buying it.
So why doesn't Roy buy it?
But Glauber said the study might have been biased by the fact that many laureates aren't selected until they're quite old.Glauber won his Nobel 40 years after publishing his work on how light behaves.
"Needless to say, if you wait a long time in selecting any group of people, you've eliminated the people who have a short lifespan," he said in an interview. "That does load the dice in favor of longevity."
I like Roy's point...
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Good point by Glauber. I thought this sounded shifty when I first heard it, but I couldn't put my finger on why, exactly.