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In 100 Plus, futurist Sonia Arrison celebrates medical advances, but fails to question fantastical figures suggesting we’ll live happy and healthy to 150

“THE trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain’t so.” So said Mark Twain, and his words were echoing in my head as I read 100 Plus.

The science of ageing has reached a critical phase. In the developed world we live 30 years longer, on average, than our ancestors born a century ago, but the price we pay for those added years is…

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