[agumonkey]

haha so not surprised by your anecdote, I met him only once but it seems very degrey. Doesn't waste time.

From I what I could hear, he has to spend a lot of time managing funding for sub parts of the foundation and other efforts. Maybe this dilluted his claims a bit in time. All of his friends seemed to be pretty high grade researchers, it was a bit of an SF experiment sitting among that crowd.

Thanks for the name, there's another Kirkland studying aged things https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kirkland_(paleontologist... but well .. couldn't resist that joke.

The panel I attended was the ICSA 2017 at Paris (Pasteur) http://www.icsa2017-senescence-on-the-seine.org/

Kirkland wasn't there but a nice international bunch

They were supposed to plan for a sequel since a few hundred people attended their surprise talk; we'll see.