X-Message-Number: 30411 From: Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:31:30 -0500 Subject: Accurate Information about LEF --_----------=_120217869064840 Content-Disposition: inline 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. -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com! --_----------=_120217869064840 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=30411