X-Message-Number: 24325
From: Tim Freeman <>
Date: Sun,  4 Jul 2004 06:14:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [CN] aging: the reality
References: <>

On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 05:39  AM, Stodolsky quotes Skrecky as saying:
> J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2004 Jun;59(6):B579-86.
> Aging: the reality: demography of human supercentenarians.
>   An international committee of demographers has created a carefully
> documented list of worldwide living supercentenarians (>/=110 years 
> old)
> that has been published by the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group 
> on
> its web site and updated on a weekly basis for the past 6 years [see
> "snapshot" for the year 2003 in the Appendix].

Cryonet message 24320 said:
>From: David Stodolsky <>
>I couldn't locate the documented list on-site ...

Google for "grg supercentenarian" turns up a page that leads to the
supercentenarian list at http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~scoles/Adams/E.HTM.

>... however, L. Stephen 
>Coles, MD, PhD, co-founder of the 'Los Angeles Gerontology Research 
>Group' was listed here:
>
>http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/jlradvisors.html

To be specific, the web page is about Glenn Braswell, and Coles is
listed on that web page as an advisor of Braswell back in 1997.  The
web page also says "Braswell is known to have used people's names and
pictures without their authorization".  There's nothing negative there
about Coles other than the fact that Coles apparently advised Braswell
until 1997.  The relationship of "advisor" would seem to involve
little culpability, since if the only advice Coles gave Braswell was
"don't do that", and Coles was ignored, then Coles was still an
advisor to Braswell.

>His claimed association with UCLA appears to have expired, if it ever 
>existed. He is not found in the UCLA directory.

I agree that searching for Coles at http://www.directory.ucla.edu/
doesn't give results.

His email address is scoles at ucla.edu, and the Gerontology Research
Group mailing list is hosted at grg at lists.ucla.edu.

I don't know what his present relationship with UCLA is.

His signature on posts to the mailing list gives the URL
http://www.grg.org, but DNS can't resolve that name.

I've cc'd this email to Coles so he'll know www.grg.org is unreachable
and he can clear up questions about his credentials if he wants to.  I
don't know that he's on the cryonet list, so his reply may not get
there.  I'll forward for him if he asks me to, or he can temporarily
join the list and post himself.

-- 
Tim Freeman                                                  
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