Summary Critique of 'Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To’ and ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions’
I read a few 1-page summaries of ‘ Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To ’, by Harvard scientist David A. Sinclair, and ‘ The Structure of Scientific Revolutions ’, by Thomas S. Kuhn. I suspect the summaries of both books must be erroneous oversimplifications of either what really happens, or what the authors actually say, as I found the summary hypothesis to be insufficient and easily critiqued. For 'Lifespan:...', I found this critique, A Science-Based Review of the World’s Best-Selling Book on Aging by Charles Brenner, to be a concise and plausible refutation of Sinclair's dual hypotheses, "What if aging is a disease" and "What if that disease is treatable". However, I wish it had gone into more detail about how telomeres work, and why "resetting" them isn't a viable solution to cure disease, stop aging, or extend life. Paradoxically, extending telomeres is what you would do if you wanted to make those cells vulnerable to devel...