Man With No Height Could be World's Tallest or Shortest Person

37 year old Micheal Palin (not to be confused with Micheal Palin, the French painter) visited his local doctor last Thursday mid-noon for a basic check up. However, when the doctor attempted to measure Palin's height, he was completely unable to do so.
"I told him to remove his shoes and any other outdoor footwear and stand up straight next to the measuring device," says Doctor Wish, "but when I tried to distinguish his exact height, he didn't come up to anywhere on the scale".

This odd and surprising phenomena is very rare, but can sometimes occur when a child is born without height genes. Usually the height genes determine exactly how tall the person will be when they grow up, whereas a child born without these genes will grow but will never have any kind of measurable height.

With the possibility of Palin being anywhere between zero and forty-eight foot tall, his lack of height has caused his doctor, Doctor Wish, to wonder if he could in fact be the tallest person alive.
The previous record for height is currently held by Martin Martini, who stands at a Goliath thirty-two feet. However could Palin be even taller in reality?
Says Doctor Wish: "Since he has no height he could actually be taller than all of us and we'd never know. But of course he could also be extremely short, maybe the smallest man in the world. We'll just never know either way".