{"id":74648,"date":"2017-12-21T09:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/for-the-last-time-rejuvenation-is-not-immortality"},"modified":"2017-12-21T09:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T17:22:30","slug":"for-the-last-time-rejuvenation-is-not-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/for-the-last-time-rejuvenation-is-not-immortality","title":{"rendered":"For the last time: rejuvenation is not immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-last-time-rejuvenation-is-not-immortality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether or not immortality is possible, whether or not one would like it for oneself, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that it is not what biomedical research against ageing is about.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>When doing science, it is crucially important to have clear, unambiguous definitions. These definitions must be firmly established to avoid confusion and misunderstandings and possibly to prevent people from going around telling everyone that you\u2019re working on something that you\u2019re actually not.<\/p>\n<p><b>The I-word<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not uncommon, especially for outsiders of a given field, to use an inappropriate word to indicate a more complex concept than the word itself conveys\u2014maybe because they think that the two are close enough or possibly because they just don\u2019t see the difference.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/for-the-last-time-rejuvenation-is-not-immortality\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/for-the-last-time-rejuvenation-is-not-immortality\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not immortality is possible, whether or not one would like it for oneself, it\u2019s important to keep in mind that it is not what biomedical research against ageing is about. When doing science, it is crucially important to have clear, unambiguous definitions. These definitions must be firmly established to avoid confusion and misunderstandings [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":418,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}