X-Message-Number: 26468 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: Anti-ageing and life extension (was: The Salvation Army and cryonics Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:56:44 +0100 > From: David Stodolsky <> > Subject: Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:53:01 +0200 <del> (reporting on an article in the Journal of Gerontology) > ... there currently is no evidence that bio-medical interventions can > extend life. Part of the issue was devoted to fraudulent claims, that > seem to be wide spread and to the risk of injury to anyone accepting > such claims. That risk is nearly three hundred thousand times greater than using a hospital, according to information quoted below. (It is known that seriously sick people use hospitals and many would die anyway. The compiler of these figures says he has factored this out.) > Click on any link to download a PDF file that you can read on screen or > print. > > Australian Society Risks -graph ( PDF > <http://www.healthyoptions.co.nz/Australia.pdf>- 211k) > Relative Risk - Boeing ( PDF > <http://www.healthyoptions.co.nz/aRelative%20risk%20Boeing.pdf>- 96k) > Leape relative risks ( PDF <http://www.healthyoptions.co.nz/leape.pdf>- > 102k) where it says that the risk of dying in Canada relative to being killed on a 747 flight is for *Preventable* medical injury in hospitals 4,085 adverse pharmaceutical drugs 756 natural healthcare and therapeutic products 0.014 (yes, zero point zero one four ) From which one must conclude that hospitals are very dangerous places only to be used in a last resort when certain death is the only alternative. (Would you fly with an airline using aeroplanes more than 300,000 times more dangerous than a 747? Only if attempting escape from certain death, I would have thought.). No wonder the "Journal of Gerontology, which is probably the top journal in the field" doesn't mention this fact -- it is after all a professional journal. [ no doubt if someone could invent a better hospital they would -- I am sure that most staff do their best to help as many people as possible ] Do you know anyone who has been struck by a meteorite, by the way? Well that is the only thing that has a lower rate of risk than "natural healthcare products" according to these pages. -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://John.deRivaz.com for websites including Cryonics Europe, Longevity Report, The Venturists, Porthtowan, Alec Harley Reeves - inventor, Arthur Bowker - potter, de Rivaz genealogy, Nomad .. and more Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=26468