Hi, I’m Dr Saul Newman (proof)! I’m an Ig Nobel prize winner, a senior research fellow at University College London and Oxford University, and the author of Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science – a book about the extraordinary failures of modern aging science.
Modern health science is being overtaken by profitable bunk, where core principles of health are being undercut by 18th-century-style snake-oil sales pitches. This problem is absurdly apparent in aging science, where the basic principles of logic and evidence have been eroded by decades of marketing gurus with tenure.
My book reveals the shocking absurdities of the ‘research’ ecosystem that has emerged and shows how it all collapsed into a morass of money and bad ideas.
Fantastically popular concepts in aging science, like peptides, ‘blue zones’, and new theories of aging, are comedically debunked. Some, like the telomere theory of aging, are shown to be shockingly devoid of basic thought despite the backing of Nobel laureates and billionaires.
Through it all, I discuss the dubious motivations and bad statistics that explain why nothing ever works in aging research.
Ask me anything, including
- Why nothing in aging science ever works
- How I discovered most of Greece’s 100-year-olds were dead
- Why I was dragged into a fight to dig up a famous corpse
- How Peter Thiel got involved in a (successful) plan to grab Texan teenager-blood
- Corruption and misconduct in aging research, and why it runs unchecked
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