User:Sbharris

I am user:sbharris = S  B Harris (Steven B. Harris). I'm sbharris on Wikipedia also, where I've been editing under my own name since November, 2005. The idea of editing under my own name and real life identity has never bothered me in the least. I'm sure it bothers some people who are paranoid, are up to no good, or who have no integrity. However, that's their problem, not mine.

I'm a 53 year-old U.S. physician (trained and boarded in internal medicine and geriatrics) interested in nutrition, gerontology/aging, dietary restriction, life-extension, resuscitation, liquid ventilation, induced therapeutic hypothermia (especially hypothermic liquid ventilation), and also pharmacology topics in microemulsions and lipophilic drug and nutrient delivery. I'm also interested in respiratory physiology, physics, chemistry and scuba. I currently spend full time in hypothermia physiology and drug-development research.

Fringe-science or protoscience topic interests of mine related to medicine include cryonics, the far future of medicine, and science fiction treatments of medical ideas. I've also been interested in debunking of HIV-skepticism and many other kinds of medical "quackery" (e.g., homeopathy). This does not mean I think all of "alternative" medical treatment is quackery. I have a longstanding interest in nutritional medical therapy, for example, but the wheat must be separated from the chaff.

My regular email is sbharris@[ROMAN9].netcom.com. Just make a Roman numeral 9, then replace the bracketed part with it, with no brackets. It's a test.

Glad to make your acquaintence!

Steve

First note on this site: Nov. 24, 2010