Not a claim about the case’s core resveratrol/NMN ingredients directly, but the most recent, most sharply documented instance of the case’s promotional pattern: an unpublished, non-peer-reviewed preprint used as the basis for a strong public “reversed aging” claim tied to a commercial product Sinclair co-founded and personally promoted. STAT News reported on 5 March 2024 that no published research had yet demonstrated the claimed effect. University of Washington longevity researcher Matt Kaeberlein, a founding member of the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research that Sinclair then led, publicly resigned his membership over the episode, writing that “I find it deeply distressing that we’ve gotten to a point where dishonesty in science is normalized” and separately calling the episode the textbook case of a scientist selling snake oil. Animal Bioscience subsequently issued a revised press release that stepped away from the age-reversal claim, and Sinclair resigned as the Academy’s president shortly afterward (nmn.com, 7 May 2024). The archive marks the specific “proven to reverse aging” claim refuted on this record.