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portada Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
312
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
22.86x15.24 cm
ISBN13
9780262052719

Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science

Saul Justin Newman (Author) · MIT Press · Hardcover

Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science - Saul Justin Newman

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Synopsis "Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science"

A darkly comedic journey into the science of aging—where ethics are irrelevant, the studies are a sales pitch, and the “world's oldest living people” all turn out to be dead.

Our morbid fascination with death and dying has created an opening for all manner of skullduggery in the science of aging—an area of study that Morbid reveals to be rife with misleading claims, mistaken assumptions, and outright chicanery. The world’s oldest man is a fake, hundreds of thousands of the world’s oldest people are actually dead, and five decades of research on human longevity is moot. What begins with a petition to exhume a famous corpse descends into amusing, if edifying, chaos as Saul Justin Newman sets out to discover what’s rotten and what’s real in the science of dying.

Unraveling an immense scientific scandal, the author finds researchers promoting the “anti-aging” benefits of sleeping with underage girls, a billionaire is wrapped up in a scheme to tap the blood of Texas teenagers, the whole field of aging awash in dubious money—and himself somehow accused by a CIA operative of spying for Russia. But under the shocking absurdities lurk deadly serious questions about how people age and die, how long they live and why—questions Newman addresses with genuine curiosity and scientific rigor, contributing mathematical evidence and evolutionary insights into the mystery and mechanics of why we age and why we die.

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