Others have noted in comments, but yes, SCOTUS has denied our petition for cert.
To first order, after over half a dozen years, the case goes to trial. As I’ve often said recently, this case is old enough to be in the second grade, if it wasn’t so stupid.
My buddy Chantelle Baier just put together an event in Cincinnati in which they launched fifty Estes rockets at a time. Chantelle is the one in black standing by the wall in the left center of the picture.
SCOTUS conferenced on whether or not they’ll grant cert today, but there is no world about the result. We now won’t know before Tuesday.
[Tuesday-morning update]
We hoped we’d hear today, but the good news is that this time, it was apparently conferenced on Friday, and has now been relisted. The alternative would have been a denial, but now we may hear on Friday, and they will likely grant it.
“These unprecedented results show that longer than normal telomeres in a given species are not harmful but quite the contrary: they have beneficial effects, such as increased longevity, delayed metabolic age and less cancer,” concludes the team.
The telomere theory has been around for decades, but we seem to be getting closer to actual implementation.