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Dog Aging Project

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Re: Dog Aging Project

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How many of you glance at this website and think "fraud engine"? This is a fantastic vehicle to suck money out of people that love their pets, and love animals in general. I know nothing about these people, but my fraud alarms are screaming.

Matt Kaeberlein is as legit as it gets in longevity science. It's very much not a fraud.

Re: Dog Aging Project

#132

How many of you glance at this website and think "fraud engine"? This is a fantastic vehicle to suck money out of people that love their pets, and love animals in general. I know nothing about these people, but my fraud alarms are screaming.

Every single longevity project - human or otherwise - is a scam. Fear of dying is the most fundamental one to existence, and scam artists have been exploiting it for as long as there have been people. Religion promises an eternal afterlife. Cryogenics promises a future thawing and cure in an enlightend and technically advanced future. Plastic surgery puts a veneer over the signs of the natural aging process. The more…

There are many destructive processes happening in the post-reproductive years that we don't have names for yet and unfortunately have been referring to as "aging". But they are disease states as much as any other.

There is literally nothing about this project that will have any dog or human live forever. But it does have the possibility to improve dog and human health in some fundamental ways and increase the number of healthy years that we get before disease takes over. If this is longevity science, then all medicine is longevity science.

Re: Dog Aging Project

#133
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How many of you glance at this website and think "fraud engine"? This is a fantastic vehicle to suck money out of people that love their pets, and love animals in general. I know nothing about these people, but my fraud alarms are screaming.

Well study participants aren't charged. Maybe it's fraud against those who are funding it, but the pet owners themselves are not the current target.

> pet owners themselves are not the current target.

Uhh there is a donation button on the site.

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