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Old-timers will remember Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire and his Golden Fleece awards to what he deemed to be silly-sounding research paid for by the government.
Now, researchers on aging have their own annual "Silver Fleece" award, designed to poke fun at what they say are examples of "antiaging quackery." Prizes for the absent winners-bottles of "snake oil"-were announced last month by biodemographer S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois,...





