Relying on the Wider Community to Keep Me on the Straight and Narrow
It has to be said that, despite a scientific background and four years of increasingly closely watching aging research news, I'm seeing an upturn in items in the past year that I just can't clearly call as useful or useless, excellent progress or utter nonsense. I'm fairly sure that I've managed to refrain from posting links to anything outrightly silly or useless - and hopefully from writing anything outrightly silly or useless - but it does bring home that it takes a community to process what's going on in modern bioscience. It's up to you lot to keep me on the straight and narrow, so keep the comments coming.
For that matter, this sort of experience underscores the need for gentle introductions to various topics within the realm of healthy life extension and related medical research. Drop a library on a man and you won't have an advocate or enthusiastic community member - you'll have someone flattened under a library. The workable approach is to provide a good introductory book, the catalogue and key to the reading room and let the recipient take it from there.