More importantly, you can't let the media go and publish that you found something when you didn't. That, particularly, is what makes this junk science. The da

More importantly, you can't let the media go and publish that you found something when you didn't. That, particularly, is what makes this junk science. The data isn't necessarily incorrect or contaminated, but we have to be careful not to over-generalize the findings. There are too many factors not accounted for in this study to apply it to general use in humans. My favorite example is that laboratory colonies are isolated from many pathogens, and thus they exclude disease interaction. In most studies this is desired, but in a whole-life study like this it cannot be ignored if it will be applied to people out in the wild. This study can only be used to think about this specific effect on aging in isolation and look for mechanisms which we can then test in the general population.