[ExI] The "real" world

[Brian Manning Delaney]

El 2010-03-24 07:24, Lee Corbin escribió:

> People jump on new diets all the time. If we had *scientific
> proof* that this diet would do as you say, there would be
> absolutely no shortage of takers.

> Naturally, almost none of this applies to CR, a painful and
> unproven regimen.

I wonder about that. 1) "Painful" isn't universally true (at least going 
by what CRers themselves say), and, more importantly 2) no putative 
life-extending regimen is likely ever to be scientifically verified in 
the way that other life-improving regimens can be verified, for the 
simple reason that the relevant endpoints are too difficult to measure 
(because one has to wait a century or so to measure them, or to verify 
proxy measurements).

Anyone reasonable person who looks at the arguments and evidence for and 
against CR would have to conclude that mild to moderate CR (for "normal" 
people -- those without a predisposition to eating disorders, those who 
don't suffer from illnesses tht require ingestion of a lot of food, and 
so on) is vastly more likely to lengthen life than not. I find it 
puzzling that so few life-extensionists have even TRIED CR (to see 
whether "painful" is, for them, "too painful").

Brian