X-Message-Number: 24594 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 10:43:27 -0400 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: More queries to Doug Skrecky For Doug Skrecky: The conflict between your quotation and what you said was that, according to your quotation, some experimenters have gotten an INCREASE in lifespan using resveratrol with fruitflies. You said that you had not found such an increase, but for some reason said that this experiment had resolved some questions & clarified the role of resveratrol (this is not a quote, but what I understand you to have meant. If I'm wrong please correct me). You add in your recent answer to my query that most of the flies in your experiments were "calorie deprived". The muddle gets even worse when you state that; were you studying the effects of calorie deprivation in your fruit flies, or the effects of the various substances --- drugs, foods, etc etc that you were giving them? Taken literally, this sounds like you have cast dowbt on ALL your work with fruit flies. You weren't testing the diet of fruit flies, but CR in fruit flies. Why then bother with all the many substances you tried and reported on Cryonet? What the hell were you doing, anyway? Best wishes and long long life to all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24594