<i>&gt; My molecular biologist friend&#x27;s comment on this [...] Manipulating telomeres to investigate aging reminds me of this classic joke [...]</i><p>What&#x27;s your friend speciality? Any link to his telomeres&#x2F;telomerase papers, or any chance you can point him to Maria Blasco&#x27;s [0] work (top researcher in the field with 200+ papers [1]) for comments?:<p>It&#x27;d be interesting to see science-backed rebuttals.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mar%C3%ADa_Blasco_Marhuenda" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Mar%C3%ADa_Blasco_Marhuenda</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.es&#x2F;scholar?q=MA+blasco&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;scholar.google.es&#x2F;scholar?q=MA+blasco&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0</a>