Longevity, Clonaid receive Silver Fleece awards for 2003 – News and Comment – Brief Article
William M. London
A 2003 Silver Fleece award for antiaging quackery went to Longevity, a product Urban Nutrition, Inc., promotes at www.findlongevicynow.com as containing a “human growth hormone releaser” and an ingredient–2-aminoethyiphosphoric acid-it describes as the “ultimate defense against aging and degenerative disease.”
S. Jay Olshansky, professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health, presented the awards at a joint conference of the National Council on the Aging and the American Society of Aging in March.
Also earning a Silver Fleece was Clonaid, the company that claimed without evidence to have cloned a human being.
Olshansky presents the Silver Fleece awards “to the product (and its producer) with the most ridiculous, outrageous, scientifically unsupported or exaggerated assertions about aging or age-related diseases.”
Last year, he gave a Silver Fleece to Clustered Water, whose producers claimed on their Web site that the product “truly assists our body’s natural processes in counteracting the cellular malfunctions that many health practitioners and researchers believer are responsible for degenerative health.” Olshansky is coauthor with Bruce Carnes of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Norton 2001).
William London is Program Director and Editor, NCAHF Newsletter, National Council Against Health Fraud, Inc.
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