Peter Attia's Longevity Book Outlive: The BEST or WORST longevity book?

I said in a previous post about Peter Attia's longevity book: "If he has one flaw it's that he does not see empiricism as a type of knowledge". 

In other words he only trusts scientific trials designed to test a certain hypothesis.

I also said: "I could unpack that, but I will be succinct and skip it this time". Well, a excellent review of Attia's book has arrived that is in itself an excellent "unpacking".

So first, before the review, a few words on the general problem of these two types of knowledge formation, and the strong biases that can and do form with each.

Empiricism is essentially what we learn from personal and collective experience. For example, if we ate a berry we had not seen before and it made us sick, we would be wary of eating it again. Then if many other people had the same experience, and we learned of their experiences, we would now benefit from individual and collective empirical experiences combined, and knowledge is strengthened.

It would not be an exaggeration to say the survival of any bio-species depends on direct experiences and the resulting empirical know ledger. 

So, yep, it's a pretty big deal.

Neither process for collecting knowledge is perfect. Mythology can and does "infect" empiricism, and scientific bias (itself a type of mythology) can and does "infect" science, and these "infections" of process are common. Mythological "biases" in any process are, by definition, mostly unconscious, and for that reason stubborn.

Both processes combined can strengthen overall levels of knowledge. However there are also biases in each camp against the other, which is why early stage knowledge formation can be and frequently is a "long argued" complex process, taking decades for so-called "landed knowledge" to arrive.

Both types of knowledge formation can also be socially problematic when strong biases in either are legislated into law, and contrary opinion is punished. There are many examples of this sort of tyranny through history, and it continues to this day.

And now, a most excellent review of Peter Attia's longevity book, by a scientist with a firm grasp on the benefits coming from applied empiricism. Enjoy --

https://youtu.be/VWeg3l3RBIM?si=bHrVo0yqFzQ5NYo9