Research versus Rhetoric.
Limited to 1,000 words, we address some serious technical mistakes and factual errors, as well as the misleading quotations in the section of Olshansky's and Carnes' article that attacks some of our joint research.
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, and Department of Sociology and Demography, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany. jwv@demogr.mpg.de
James W
JW
Vaupel
Roland
R
Rau
D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends*; D008136:Longevity