Comment Basic Statistics (Score 1) 1120
"If you are a reasonably risk-aware teenager today in an affluent, non-violent neighbourhood, you have a risk of dying in the next year of well under one in 1,000, which means that if you stayed that way forever you would have a 50/50 chance of living to over 1,000."
How this guy is a PhD is beyond me with this fundamental misapplication of basic applied statistics. And this article mentions nothing more than various "therapies" that need to be combined in order to reduce the effects of repeated cellular replication over time (also known as Senescence, or the "effects of aging"). As your cells replicate, telomeres, or sequences of repetitive DNA at the end of the chromosome that protect the genetic information inside the chromosome, grow shorter. If the telomere 'runs out', as would certainly be the case after a couple hundred years, chromosomal information would become corrupted (i.e. mutations) and subsequent cells would be irreperably damaged. Any article claiming to 'cure' aging would have to address the telomere issue first.
How this guy is a PhD is beyond me with this fundamental misapplication of basic applied statistics. And this article mentions nothing more than various "therapies" that need to be combined in order to reduce the effects of repeated cellular replication over time (also known as Senescence, or the "effects of aging"). As your cells replicate, telomeres, or sequences of repetitive DNA at the end of the chromosome that protect the genetic information inside the chromosome, grow shorter. If the telomere 'runs out', as would certainly be the case after a couple hundred years, chromosomal information would become corrupted (i.e. mutations) and subsequent cells would be irreperably damaged. Any article claiming to 'cure' aging would have to address the telomere issue first.
