[CRS_META] declined: admin issue

[Tim C.]

All,

The declined post is below. This post straddled the barrier between
being purely admin (like a change email request) and an issue of
interest to other members.

-Tim C.



Hi Jens,

I am CC'ing this message to Robert Cavanaugh (CRS Managing Director).
The CR Society list is focused on calorie restriction as a topic.
For an open, unfettered (as little moderation as possible) discussion,
a more suitable venue might be the Meta or Community lists.

Please see here for posting guidelines:

http://www.calorierestriction.org/node/130
(hyperlinks will take you to the Meta or Community sign-up pages).

I will CC this post to Meta as well which is composed of list members
that have opted to receive list-related discussions.  Any non-trivial
posts (spam, simple requests) that are not posted to list usually get
sent to Meta.

 From the mission statement, http://www.calorierestriction.org/Mission
you may note in archived discussions evidence of these activities
(conferences, media, the lists themselves, ongoing research).

To take a stab at your question, I suspect any role a member plays is
mainly limited by the time and thought they put towards it.

By way of example, conference calls - which may be of interest to your
concerns - are announced periodically:

http://www.calorierestriction.org/archive/read.php?2,192448,192448#msg-192448

-Tim C. (a CRS Moderator)



Hello--

I would like to know how I should best support this research? I asked
you a number of questions offline and you said you were busy and would
reply soon, but I still haven't received a reply. Perhaps others can
help me. Where does my 35 dollars - or 350 or 3500 or whatever amount
I might give - go? Can members have a say in what research is
supported? Right now it seems that at least some of the research being
funded supports one of the primary theses of the society's researcher
director's books. That doesn't have to be a problem of course -
especially if they are donating profits of their books to the society.
But before I give the society money, I'd like to know what role
members can have in forming the policy of the society.

Thanks

J


On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Brian M. Delaney
<president at calorierestriction.org> wrote:
> >
> > Michael,
> >
> > Thanks for the excellent summary, and outline of the key issues.
> >
> > I quite heartily agree with what you say here:
> >
> > Michael Rae skrev:
> >
> > [....]
> >
>> >> And, bottom line, it must be remembered that the research shows very clearly, and I don't think that anyone 
seriously disputes, that Calories are the critical factor, and provided that you're getting *adequate* nutrition, all of
this messing with macronutrients is merely tweaking around the edges.
> >
> > We of course can't rule out that humans are fundamentally different from rodents (research primarily in non-human 
animals, I assume you mean above) in ways we so far haven't seen. But that seems pretty unlikely to me.
> >
> > Still, there's only one way to find out: support research into human CR!
> >
> > Best,
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
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