For the crowd of mostly baby boomers, who’d just finished their healthy lunch of salmon fillet on a bed of grains and vegetables, the warning could not have been more dire: You’re running out of time.
STAT got an inside look at this $195-a-head symposium, held last month in this wealthy beachside community. It offered a striking view of how promoters aggressively market scientifically dubious elixirs to aging people desperate to defy their own mortality.
At STAT’s request, eight independent experts reviewed informational handouts about the clinical trial, and all sharply criticized the study’s marketing, design, and scientific rationale.
