The Reserve-Capacity Hypothesis (drama, deceit, deception and skullduggery!!!)

[KHashmi316]

Are you into tales about senescence, telomerase, "broken mice" and academic corruption? 

High drama and complete listenablity (better than the movies!!) in this story .... 

Advance to approx. 40:00 into podcast. 

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 In 2002, he [BRET WEINSTEIN]  published The Reserve-Capacity Hypothesis, which proposed that the telomeric differences between humans and laboratory mice have led scientists to underestimate the risks new drugs pose to humans in the form of heart disease, liver dysfunction, and related organ failure

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All of our Mice are Broken. On this episode of The Portal, Bret and Eric sit down alone with each other for the first time in public. There was no plan.

There was however, a remarkable story of science at its both best and worst that had not been told in years. After an initial tussle, we dusted off the cobwebs and decided to reconstruct it raw and share it with you, our Portal audience, for the first time. I don't think it will be the last as we are now again looking for our old notes to tighten it up for the next telling. We hope you find it interesting, and that it inspires you younger and less established scientists to tell your stories using this new medium of long form podcasting. We hope the next place you hear this story will be in a biology department seminar room in perhaps Cambridge, Chicago, Princeton, the Bay Area or elsewhere. Until then, be well and have a listen to this initial and raw version.
 

 

Refs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bret_Weinstein

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/63672/fruitbat_1.pdf?sequence=1

 

[Clinton]

Fantastic find Khashmi!!  Loved it.