RE: NY Times article - a response from Dr. Walford

[Guest guest]

Hello Francesca and CR ALL:

Walford posted Roy's message directly. It was there.

Thank you for sharing this way.

We can be grateful for the personal interest that Dr. Walford

takes in us when he posts a personal message to our List.

He is thinking about us. We are thankful, and we should tell

him that we are.

Maybe Francesca, you could express our delight to Roy for the

thoughtfulness that he shows to occasionally share and post

a personal message. We love to hear news this way.

This is a great honor bestowed on us by a great scientist.

-- Warren

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> -----Original Message-----

> From: Francesca Skelton [mailto:fskelton@...]

> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:06 PM

> support group

> Cc: Warren

> Subject: FW: NY Times article - a response from Dr. Walford

>

>

> Dr. Walford apparently is alive and kicking. He just asked me

> to post this to the group. Warren: would you also post this

> to the other group? I am no longer a member there.

> ----------

> From: Roy Walford

> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:48:12 -0800

> Francesca Skelton <fskelton@...>

> Subject: NY Times article

>

> Francesca,

> I have emailed to post the below

> for me, but she is in India and may

> not be getting her email. Perhaps

> you can handle it.

> Roy

> -------------------------------

> - " The URL for the CR Society is indeed given in the NY Times article,

> despite someone's claim on the CR postings that it wasn't.

> And Roy did NOT simply say, during the SELF magazine interview,

> that humans could live to 160 on the CR diet. What he said was more

> or less like, 'If the rodent data translates over to humans,

> we could live to 160'. The writer simply dropped the first part.

>

> We have found out through experience that if you want journalists

> to get it strictly right, you have to limit yourself to only talking

> to science writers. But that turns out to be somewhat

> counter productive. Our publisher, for example, was delighted

> with the NY Times article. On the whole, it will get more people

> interested in CR. So it's somewhat of an enigma how to

> handle this problem. "

> -------------------------------------------------------

[Guest guest]

Warren: Dr. Walford reads the list and will no doubt see your message to

him there. It's nice to know he is well enough to remain interested.

on 11/27/2003 10:14 PM, Warren at warren.taylor@... wrote:

> Hello Francesca and CR ALL:

>

> Walford posted Roy's message directly. It was there.

> Thank you for sharing this way.

>

> We can be grateful for the personal interest that Dr. Walford

> takes in us when he posts a personal message to our List.

> He is thinking about us. We are thankful, and we should tell

> him that we are.

>

> Maybe Francesca, you could express our delight to Roy for the

> thoughtfulness that he shows to occasionally share and post

> a personal message. We love to hear news this way.

>

> This is a great honor bestowed on us by a great scientist.

>

> -- Warren