[CRS_META] declined: crsociety - off-topic

[Tim C.]

This is from "Son of Man".  My off-list message is below.
-Tim C.



SoM,

Regarding your message below, I find it off-topic or - more accurately - best
suited for the Meta list (where I will send it).  I.e., your post discusses what
the list should be about rather than what it is.  AFAIK, it is not a pro-CR list
to the point of discouraging alternative, research-supported viewpoints.  If
CR is debunked (as a human life-extension method), hopefully it will be known
sooner rather than later and this is the group that would want to know it.

Your GLBT analogy strikes me as inappropriate and inaccurate.  A.J. has posted
here for at least 5 years.  It is not as if he is disinterested, trolling, or
just showed up.

-Tim C.



As interesting as the article is, I have to question the way it was presented.

What's next, joining a GLBT mailing list and saying "You're all homos!"..?

A. J. Shaka wrote:
> Dear Readers,
>   You might be interested in the Extreme Aging study ($7M NIH grant) being
> undertaken by a colleague of mine at UCI.  Two links of interest are an
> article in Today at UCI magazine:
>
> http://today.uci.edu/Features/profile_detail.asp?key=355
>
> and the related
>
> http://uci.edu/aging/
>
> where the 90+ study, with video footage of three mid-nineties survivors is
> located at the bottom left.  None of them were on CR.  In fact, from what I
> can ascertain, none of the hundreds of people in the study is.  That being
> the case, it is clear that one can live a pretty long and alert life just by
> being "sensible".  I don't believe any of the three on the videos have any
> bone problems, either.
>
>   By the time you've brought on osteoporosis, especially if you're younger
> than 60, you ought to congratulate yourself on your steely CR resolve, and
> simultaneously keep in mind that your bones aren't going to get any stronger
> over the next 30+ years unless you switch what you're doing.  Not all risks
> for fracture scale with body mass.  Some just depend on how absolutely
> strong your bones/musculature are.
>
>   It takes more maturity to admit a mistake than to stubbornly keep pursuing
> a course that isn't going where you want it to go.  At BMI 20.8-21.1, I feel
> a million times better than when I was a skeleton.  Having other people
> think you look "good" rather than "ill" is just an added bonus.
>
> All the best,
>
> A. J.
>