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From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: engineered negligible senescence Part III
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:36:31 +0200

On 15 Apr 2007, at 01:17,  wrote:

>  This information is
> unknown to most researchers in CR, even to the present day. A
> good example of this is an eight page review entitled "Calorie  
> restriction
> and Aging" in the March 14,2007 edition of Scientific American
> Reports

While your hypothesis may be true, you can't support it with a  
popular science reference. Sci. Am. is not a peer-reviewed/scientific  
journal. In the past, it did report some original work, this has  
become less common. The summary reports are  often biased.


> : Special Edition on diet and health, which makes no references
> at all to glycotoxins. I'm not pointing fingers at any one scientist
> here. Rather this is a global problem throughout the entire scientific
> community, where it can take decades for advances in knowledge to be
> recognized and built upon. The reason for the "slow" rate of  
> scientific
> advance, as a whole, derives in part from this same tardy  
> transmission of
> information within the scientific community. Why this delay occurs,  
> and
> what can be done about it is a large question, which I do not have a
> comprehensive answer to. However this is the main reason why the hopes
> of life-extensionists are almost certainly to be in vain. Older life
> extensionists like Roy Walford (79) have been dieing pretty much on
> schedule. I expect this to continue to be the case for some time to
> come. If anybody has any idea for facilitating the transmission of new
> (as well as old) findings to the gerontology community for  
> consideration,
> please speak up!

I doubt if that community will have much to contribute to life  
extension technology. However, I do have a suggestion for resolving  
the problem of delays in the scientific communication system:


Extended abstract:

Stodolsky, D. S. (2002). Computer-network based democracy: Scientific  
communication as a basis for governance. Proceedings of the 3rd  
International Workshop on Knowledge Management in e-Government, 7,  
127-137.

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Comprehensive:

Stodolsky, D. S. (1995). Consensus Journals: Invitational journals  
based upon peer review. The Information Society, 11(4). [1994 version  
in N. P. Gleditsch, P. H. Enckell, & J. Burchardt (Eds.), Det  
videnskabelige tidsskrift (The scientific journal) (pp. 151-160).  
Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. (Tema NORD 1994: 574)]

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The latest:

Stodolsky, D. (2002). Scientific publication needs a peer consensus.  
Psycoloquy, 13(2).

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