Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/04/the-challenges-inherent-in-understanding-a-fast-moving-developing-field/
This messy popular science article is an essay length expression of futility on the part of a journalist who accepts that he is not equipped to understand the field of aging research and the longevity industry that has arisen in the past decade. One can talk to the talking heads, but they will all say something different. One can look for proof of efficacy for specific approaches, and find only contradictory data, or only compelling animal data, or only small effect sizes, and a lack of the sort of certainty that arises from large human trials. Those trials are still in the future for near every approach to the treatment of aging that might work.
Like most tours of the field written by journalists, the article lumps together terrible approaches, promising approaches, approaches with good supporting data, approaches with mixed to bad supporting data, and makes little attempt to distinguish between them. The journalist cannot distinguish between them, he doesn’t have th…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/04/the-challenges-inherent-in-understanding-a-fast-moving-developing-field/
This messy popular science article is an essay length expression of futility on the part of a journalist who accepts that he is not equipped to understand the field of aging research and the longevity industry that has arisen in the past decade. One can talk to the talking heads, but they will all say something different. One can look for proof of efficacy for specific approaches, and find only contradictory data, or only compelling animal data, or only small effect sizes, and a lack of the sort of certainty that arises from large human trials. Those trials are still in the future for near every approach to the treatment of aging that might work.
Like most tours of the field written by journalists, the article lumps together terrible approaches, promising approaches, approaches with good supporting data, approaches with mixed to bad supporting data, and makes little attempt to distinguish between them. The journalist cannot distinguish between them, he doesn’t have th…
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