Though Morbid spends much of its time challenging anti-aging myths, the book and its author nevertheless admit that the aging process remains a mystery ... Newman...doesn’t ultimately answer whether humans have a set age limit beyond which we cannot survive. He does suggest, however, that we’d better firm up our science to address it.
Intriguing, eccentric ... In an age of incessant online grifting and conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy as US secretary of health, Newman’s conclusions are refreshingly simple. Longevity 'science' is largely built on nonsense data.
It’s not often that a nonfiction science book exposes a story so scandalous it rivals something seen on reality TV. Morbid, by scientist and self-described 'cheeky scamp' Saul Justin Newman, does just that, plunging readers into the mayhem and misdeeds of modern longevity science ... Newman is an expert debunker and he’s not out to make friends. With logic, math and wit, he pokes holes in high-profile longevity research and undercuts a whole field of antiaging 'medicine,' including drugs for which Big Pharma shelled out big bucks.
