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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:31:30 -0500
Subject: Accurate Information about LEF

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It might help LEF's cause in Wikipedia if the article were more accurate
regarding what the Life Extension Foundation is and does.  Although it
appears to be so in its marketing face to the public, LEF sells no
vitamins or nutritional supplements.  It is entirely a non-profit
foundation which receives its funding from what the owners of the
for-profit Life Extension Buyers' Club (LEBC) sometimes known as Life
Extension Foundation Buyers' Club (LEFBC) decide to give to it, after
they have obviously made themselves quite wealthy individuals.  The LEF
in turn funds chosen grantees which are of personal interest to its board
of directors, most of whom are apparently also the owners of the
LEBC/LEFBC.

The source for the above information is a person close to one of the
major owners of LEBC and directors of LEF, who made his comments publicly
in the below article and in the response articles linked below it:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/message/1186382101/

Curiously, the website www.lef.org is not for the LEF at all, but for the
LEBC.  The real website for the LEF is:

http://www.lifeextensionfoundation.org/

which explains that very thing on it's home page.  Among other things,
the Wikipedia article for Life Extension Foundation is greatly in error
in stating that its website is www.lef.org.

I also noted in passing that the Wikipedia article on Saul_Kent also
incorrectly states that the Life Extension Foundation "sells dietary
supplements."

And for those who did not bother to read the cited sources above, the
distinction between LEF and LEBC/LEFBC is entirely real.  They are two
entirely separate organizations:  one non-profit, and the other very much
for-profit.

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