The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG - GRG

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Ale76 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:30:44 +0000

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Ale76 — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 15:20:52 +0000

They are pathetic. Clowns.

RE: The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG

seto2001 — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 13:26:11 +0000

Yesterday, LongeviQuest announced the debunking of Johnson Parks, who was previously believed to be the world's oldest living man. It turned out he was most likely 103 at the time of his passing, so we are withdrawing our recognition of his age validation by the Gerontology Research Group.

Interestingly, this same group—known for repeatedly claiming that LongeviQuest is unreliable and motivated solely by financial gain—withdrew their validation of his case just one day later. What a coincidence... How many coincidences does this make?

Our news article + archived screenshot from yesterday
GRG's list of validations for 2002 at the same time yesterday (where Parks is still listed)
GRG's list of world's oldest men at the same time (Parks is there)

And, of course, we'll also see claims on the Gerontology wiki from user Milanq, who will assert that it was actually the GRG that debunked him.

RE: The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG

ChrisR — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 21:14:54 +0000

Robert is taking some time out from numerous issues these days.

That’s all that can really be said.

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Futurist — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:47:06 +0000

@Ale76 What caused Robert to become inactive?

And what's the deal with Waclaw's attitude in regards to all of this?

RE: The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG

Ale76 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:28:11 +0000

@futurist The second one is not active anymore.

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Futurist — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:35:41 +0000

There is really only one person pulling the strings in the GRG these days, AQ.

And he’s not going to suspend or ban himself.

Any others are just minnows, doing what this individual wants done - or no longer directly involved.

Would that single person be Waclaw or Robert?

RE: The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG

ChrisR — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 07:14:25 +0000

There is really only one person pulling the strings in the GRG these days, AQ.

And he’s not going to suspend or ban himself.

Any others are just minnows, doing what this individual wants done - or no longer directly involved.

RE: The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG

AQ — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:40:38 +0000

I'm just gonna be honest with you all. Why can't someone just ban a certain "someone" who is doing all of this? Doesn't it seem like it would help out tremendously if this person was removed from the GRG and the Wiki Site? If I was in charge of the wiki Fandom, I would've banned such a person a long LONG time ago. What's the purpose of keeping him on the team if all he's gonna do is continue to spread false information knowing that it's false, delete important wiki pages, and continously lie about validations and credits? Doesn't it seem like firing him would remove a huge part of the problem?

RE: The Questionable Conduct of Today’s GRG

Futurist — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 21:27:20 +0000

.....

In addition, the following cases are now listed as "validated":

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A. R. O. (apparently validated as dying on the "circa" date?)

from @seto2001

To summarize: The Gerontology Research Group validated the case of "A. R. O." around 20 July https://web.archive.org/web/20240720234253/https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/2021-validations/ (she was not listed as validated on 18 July https://web.archive.org/web/20240718173018/https://www.grg-supercentenarians.org/2021-validations/ ), using a retroactive date for the year of 2021. On 21 July, Mendocino pointed out that we have evidence against her case, questioning this new validation. On 23 July, she is no longer validated, and one of the GRG members claimed on the Gerontology Wiki https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Special:Log?logid=54898 that they had "debunked her."

What are we to think of their validation standards now?

How old was A.R.O. in reality?