Stud Longevity Scientist Suckers

A star scientist suggested he’s found Holy Grail that leads to the “Reverse Aging” racket, er, fountain of youth. But other longevity experts rebuked the Harvard geneticist saying, “The selling is a step too far.”

So, don’t jump just yet into the water offered by the baby faced 54-year-old David Sinclair, as WSJ says, “legions of acolytes” presumably have by following his “seductive” online postings about his research & the “cocktails of supplements he consumes to stave off the inevitable.” Sinclair insists his own “biological age” is roughly a decade younger than his actual one. In fact, he’s “built his brand & set himself up as a spokesman for the longevity movement largely by arguing that aging is a treatable disease. For instance, the WSJ says he claimed last year that “a gene therapy invented in his Harvard lab & being developed by a company he co-founded had reversed aging & restored vision in monkeys. ‘Next up: age reversal in humans,’ he wrote on X & Instagram … Another company he co-founded quoted him in a press release saying that a supplement it had developed had reversed aging in dogs.”

The WSJ’s problem: “Scientists who study aging can’t even agree on what it means to ‘reverse’ aging, much less how to measure it.”  As a result, “in the eyes of many other scientists working to unlock the mysteries of aging, [Sinclair] went too far.” Nearly 60 scientists at yet another research outfit co-founded by Sinclair resigned while one of them referred to him as a ‘snake oil salesman.’” Sinclair did resign, while insisting he’s a guru who’s “ahead of the curve.” Besides, he could probably care less, since he’s already “parlayed his research into hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in various companies, more than 50 patents & prominence as a longevity influencer.” Didn’t P.T. Barnum tell us “There is a sucker born every minute” & suggest a Madoff is always at their service?

Davd Soul