In research, there’s a constant tension between hedgehogs and foxes. Foxes have a distaste for “grand unified theories” and prefer incremental evidence-based progress. This is a great idea in many fields of study, and I wholeheartedly recommend this approach in most of the fields. However, I would argue aging research is not one of those fields.

For researchers who find “armchair theorizing” distasteful or incorrect, here’s my justification for sticking with it.

Reasons this blog is different from research blogs in other fields:

1. Proper experimental aging research is very, very slow.
2. Accumulation of correct knowledge is not the only goal
3. Every single person is a