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ArticleHistory and philosophy of the life sciences2021

Rethinking ageing: introduction.

Alessandro Blasimme, Giovanni Boniolo, Marco J Nathan

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Article in History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Quiescence Multiverse.Biomolecules · 2025
    Review
  2. The plasticity of ageing and the rediscovery of ground-state prevention.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2021
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Alessandro BlasimmeDepartment of Health Sciences and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - ETH Zurich, Hottingerstrasse 10, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland. alessandro.blasimme@hest.ethz.ch.
Giovanni BonioloDipartimento Di Neuroscienze E Riabilitazione, Università Di Ferrara, Via Fossato di Mortara 64/A, 44121, Ferrara, Italy.
Marco J NathanDepartment of Philosophy, University of Denver, 264 Sturm Hall, 2000 E. Asbury Ave, Denver, CO, 80208, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID34357467
PMCPMC8343351

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