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The former dean of Harvard Medical School: https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1495833104510038026

A slew of retracted papers from his mentor's lab, and image duplications/fabricated western blots from David's lab:

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/05/14/never-ageing-anti-ag...

https://forbetterscience.com/2023/04/17/the-original-sins-of...

Several blog posts on the resveratrol controversy by Derek Lowe (required reading in pharma/biotech):

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/resveratrol-srt501...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/does-resveratrol-r...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/resveratrol-humans...

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/latest-sirtuin-con...

Also anecdotal, but I personally know several PIs who worked on sirtuins during their PhDs and they all say that David is full of shit.




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