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.
If interested -
Project lead interviewed by Dr. Peter Attia: https://peterattiamd.com/mattkaeberlein/
Rapamycin: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/15/rapamycin...
They share a list of academic publications that have resulted from the project, and their Team page lists the full names a sizable large number of people.
Their FAQ indicates that the cost of the DNA Kit and other things are covered by the project funding. [1]
What made you think that it's engaging in fraud? I'm genuinely curious.
I'm not involved in the project but just from looking at the site for several minutes, it seems to be a fairly reasonable research project.
Or did you say "fraud" less to mean "these are people who are stealing money and e.g., hoarding it away" and more to mean "these are people engaging in a research project I disapprove of"?
[1] https://dogagingproject.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/441699...
Interestingly, through engaging with you I discovered that this is a cognitive bias called the "horn effect" and is the reverse of the more common "Halo effect": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horn_effect#:~:text=The%20horn....
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Especially those that target extremely small slices of population (some would say at the expense of other larger, mostly neglected groups)
Uhh there is a donation button on the site.
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 recent batch have targeted metabolism, growth inhibition (ie rapamycin), etc.
Very wealthy people that don't want to die or don't want their pets to die will never be in short supply. They will still all die, roughly around the same time they would have otherwise from different causes with different infirmities (search for "sirolimus side effects").
Enjoy and make the most of the years you are given. Happy New Year.
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.