In article <Pine.3.05.9306252012.A21383-a100000 at netcom2> wick at NETCOM.COM (Potter Wickware) writes:
On 25 Jun 1993, Petur Henry Petersen wrote:
>
> There was this extraordinary report in Nature the first of
> April concerning age-research. ...
>
> Was this true and if so does anyone have comments? Or am i
> an april-fool?
Me too! The citation I looked for was the review by Obispo in Adv
Gerontol 6:1-39 (1990). But that journal ceased publication some years
ago. Next step would be to check other gerontology journals for that
volume and date, on the chance that the citation got scrambled. Or else
contact the author Robin Weiss, if anyone has an e-mail for him.
It was a joke. Thomas Donaldson on the cryonics mailing list was
really excited about it for a little while before he figured this out.
Mail to kqb at whscad1.att.com with the subject line "CRYOMSG 2128 2129"
will get you copies of what he said.
(I don't have his article in front of me and I don't remember the
citation, so there could conceivably be two astonishing pieces of
alledged ageing research that came out that day, only one of which was
a joke. But I doubt it.)
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