Perhaps, government actuariess need to read this and learn the error of their ways -- there was never any need to replace the Wigglesworth table so long as you can control retirement age !

This balderdash is all over the net and sounds like rediculous propaganda to encourage aging (and high-priced employees) to retire. I found no professional replies to it. Clearly, the way to beat this game is don't retire.

Anyone ever read Darrell Huff's How to Lie with Statistics?

Huff's book was and still is a classic. Remember almost falling off my chair when Perot pulled out the infamous US area map during one of the 1992 debates to make his "point".

Here's a good link on the validity of this "study":

Retiring Early Means a Longer Life- an urban myth?