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- From: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu (Brian Manning Delaney)
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- Subject: RFD: sci.bio.life-extension
- Followup-To: news.groups
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 23:48:53 -0500
- Organization: University of Chicago
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- This is a formal Request for Discussion regarding the establishment of
- an unmoderated sci.bio.life-extension newsgroup.
-
- <> Purpose of the Newsgroup.
-
- The newsgroup would be primarily for the discussion of techniques of
- slowing, stopping, and reversing the aging process, from a practical
- as well as theoretical standpoint. This includes, as
- life-extensionists say, "adding life to years as well as years to
- life;" i.e., we'll discuss not just techniques of "extending" what in
- some cases might be a state of already senescent decrepitude, but also
- ways of restoring and maintaining youth. In addition, the social
- consequences of increased human lifespan may be discussed. (The name
- of the group implies no stance on the merits of the book, "Life
- Extension," by Pearson and Shaw.)
-
- <> Rationale.
-
- This topic has received increasing attention in recent years as
- research gerontologists have begun to understand the biological
- mechanisms of aging. As interest in this topic has grown, so has
- discussion on the Net. The discussion has been scattered across a
- variety of newsgroups, including bionet.molbio.aging, sci.cryonics,
- sci.med.nutrition, and alt.psychoactives. None of these newsgroups is
- appropriate to a broad discussion of life-extension. The "bionet"
- groups are theoretical only, and most sites don't carry them.
- Sci.cryonics specializes in only one technique of life extension.
- Sci.med.nutrition and alt.psychoactives allow only the limited
- discussion of life-extension that falls within the spheres of
- nutrition and psychoactive drugs, respectively, and the emphasis of
- each is not on life-extension *per se*. A new group would consolidate
- the discussion, and would provide a more appropriate forum for the
- more general issues related to longevity, which do not fall under the
- purview of any current newsgroup.
-
- <> Note
-
- All discussion should be posted to news.groups.
-