The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging - Supernova: Pliki

The Status of Gerontological Theory in 1995
or β−galactosidase). That gap remains to this day—though it may, of course, be bridged
tomorrow.
So, which theory was the most believable? I do not by any means mean to insinuate
that the gaps in all these other proposed mechanisms were “clearly” more serious than those
in the mitochondrial free radical mechanism. In my view, it was completely impossible to
make a purely logical scientific case one way or another. One simply had to rely on intuition.
My intuition at that time was that the gaps in the mitochondrial free radical theory seemed
more bridgeable than those in any other theory, so that was where I devoted my energies.
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