{"id":87430,"date":"2019-02-06T03:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/we-are-happy-to-announce-dr-ruth-itzhaki-as-a-speaker-for-the-2019-undoing-aging-conference"},"modified":"2019-02-06T03:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T11:22:24","slug":"we-are-happy-to-announce-dr-ruth-itzhaki-as-a-speaker-for-the-2019-undoing-aging-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/we-are-happy-to-announce-dr-ruth-itzhaki-as-a-speaker-for-the-2019-undoing-aging-conference","title":{"rendered":"We are happy to announce Dr. Ruth Itzhaki as a speaker for the 2019 Undoing Aging Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-are-happy-to-announce-dr-ruth-itzhaki-as-a-speaker-for-the-2019-undoing-aging-conference.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRuth is a shining example of one of the qualities I most admire in a scientist: dogged perseverance in pursuit of one\u2019s thesis, in spite of near-universal rejection of it by the mainstream community, until one finally wins them round.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s only an admirable quality if you\u2019re likely to be right, of course, so you\u2019d better be a really good scientist in other ways too \u2014 and she sure is. Ruth spoke at a couple of my Cambridge conferences and I was always dismayed that such solid data and logic concerning the involvement of herpes simplex virus in Alzheimer\u2019s disease was so widely ignored or dismissed for what seemed to be totally flimsy reasons. That\u2019s not happening any more!\u201d, says Aubrey de Grey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undoing-aging.org\/news\/dr-ruth-itzhaki-to-speak-at-undoing-aging-2019\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undoing-aging.org\/news\/dr-ruth-itzhaki-to-speak-at-undoing-aging-2019\">https:\/\/www.undoing-aging.org\/news\/dr-ruth-itzhaki-to-speak-\u2026aging-2019<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10157823229597119\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10157823229597119<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRuth is a shining example of one of the qualities I most admire in a scientist: dogged perseverance in pursuit of one\u2019s thesis, in spite of near-universal rejection of it by the mainstream community, until one finally wins them round. It\u2019s only an admirable quality if you\u2019re likely to be right, of course, so you\u2019d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430","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\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}