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Where the evidence is preliminary, the text says so. Mouse results are not human results. Association is not causation. An in-vitro finding is not a therapy. Articles discussing interventions still under investigation — cellular reprogramming, longevity compounds, experimental protocols — describe what is being studied, not what is available or advisable.

On speculation

Some articles propose studies that have not been run, or extend a finding past what its authors claimed. Those passages are marked as proposals and hypotheses. They are written to be falsifiable, not to be believed. Treat them as questions worth funding, not conclusions worth acting on.

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On AI in this work

The author uses AI in the making of this work, and would rather say so plainly than leave you to wonder.

What that means here is a pipeline built for the purpose, not a prompt typed into a box. AI is used to pressure-test an argument: to find the counter-case a piece has not made, to flag a claim that has been assumed rather than shown, and to keep an essay from running one-sided because the author believed it going in. Grammarly and tools like it handle grammar and mechanics.

What it does not do is decide what the argument is. The thesis, the structure, and the judgment about what matters and what is noise are the author's. So is every figure, checked against the paper it came from rather than the announcement about it — and where it could not be verified, the piece says so.

An error here is the author's. It does not become the machine's fault because a machine was in the room.

Corrections

Errors get fixed, and material corrections are noted in the piece rather than quietly edited out. If something here is wrong, say so. The argument either improves or it dies, and both outcomes are useful.