After careful consideration, I have renounced my membership in the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research.
primary document · 2024
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SUMMARY
University of Washington longevity researcher Matt Kaeberlein's own public statement resigning his membership in the Academy for Health and Lifespan Research (a body David Sinclair co-founded and then led as president) over the Animal Bioscience 'Leap Years' dog-supplement press release. An AI-mediated browser fetch of the LinkedIn page during authoring rendered the full post text (matching the substance below), but LinkedIn serves a login wall to the plain automated fetcher the deterministic `verify-quotes` gate uses, so the exact wording is anchored here to a page that gate CAN fetch directly. That mirror (nmn.com, byline Victor Ciardha, published 11 March 2024, updated 22 April 2024) quotes the same statement verbatim: "I find it deeply distressing that we've gotten to a point where dishonesty in science is normalized to an extent that nobody is shocked when a tenured @Harvard professor falsely proclaims in a press release that a product he is selling to pet owners has 'reversed aging in dogs'." and "To me, this is the textbook definition of snake oil salesman." Exact post date (3 March 2024) corroborated by two independent secondary reports of the same post (thelongevitynewsletter.com; rapamycin.news), both dated 2024-03-03; the LinkedIn page itself renders only a relative timestamp.
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Established-expert-source criticism, in the author’s own words rather than as reported speech: a fellow longevity researcher and founding Academy member’s public, on-the-record judgment that Sinclair’s marketing claim for a company he founded was dishonest. This is the case’s clearest example of the sourced-critique standard’s ‘established expert source’ tier for a living, active-enterprise subject.