Well. I feel totally humiliated for falling for this. Thanks for setting
me straight, Tim.
On 26 Jun 1993, Timothy Freeman wrote:
> 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.)
> --
> Tim Freeman <tsf at cs.cmu.edu>
> When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
> When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
> When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
> Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
>
