>>11841397I don't know why he gets shit on so much. His concern seems completely plausible.
The only question is if most research still does use mice from that lab, and if that lab still has lots of (or exclusively) mice with unusually elongated telomeres. If they do, it seems highly plausible that there's potential to fuck with some testing results for certain kinds of drugs and tests. He gives a very good explanation of why "well, mice aren't good models of humans anyway" is a bad counter-argument to that.
Doesn't seem like it'd be that hard to confirm/deny the state of his hypothesis in 2020.
