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100 1 0 _aLe Bourg, Éric
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245 0 0 _aLongevity and immortality in human beings: Madness, nonsense, and hard facts
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520 _aSome people have predicted that today’s teenagers could live for 5,000 years and the mass-media are prone to report these predictions that almost signify immortality. This article aims to show that such predictions are not based on scientific knowledge and are embedded in old-fashioned concepts, some of them dating back several centuries.
690 _aquackery
690 _aageing
690 _aimmortality
690 _alongevity
690 _atranshumanism
786 0 _nGérontologie et société | vol. 38 / o 151 | 3 | 2016-11-22 | p. 73-86 | 0151-0193
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-gerontologie-et-societe-2016-3-page-73?lang=en
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