Peter Diamandis is an entrepreneur and the founder of XPRIZE, a non-profit organization that designs and conducts competitions to incentivize technological development. His published research includes work on using artificial intelligence to develop deep markers of psychological and subjective age.
29 claims checked on air: 7 context 1 contradicted 2 overstated 13 supported 6 unverified
"I keep the temperature about 65 degrees, which allows you to go deeper." (said at 0:12:45)
No published record matching the claim that keeping bedroom temperature at approximately 65 degrees Fahrenheit allows individuals to reach deeper sleep stages was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"It was actually a nurse that changed the world: she handed him saline solution and said, "Oh, we got some more morphine." Since he believed it, he told these patients with total certainty, "You'll be out of pain in the next minute or two, and you're going to be fine." Well, none of them went into shock, 90% of them were out of pain with no drugs." (said at 0:17:08)
No published record matching the claim that 90% of wounded World War II soldiers experienced pain relief and avoided shock after receiving saline substituted for morphine was located; this does not prove the claim false. Published clinical literature on placebo response under high stress (such as Henry Beecher's work following WWII) documented that placebos are effective in severe pathological pain, but reported response rates of approximately 30–35%, rather than 90%.
"Now, first of all, the size of the placebo, the size of our intervention changes everything: a little pill, certain reaction; a big pill, more; an injection, even more." (said at 0:17:46)
No published record matching the claim that the magnitude of a placebo response increases with intervention size or invasiveness (such as larger pills producing greater effects than smaller pills, or sham injections producing stronger effects than oral placebos) was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"I'm sure you know Harvard's done studies where they take someone and give them a real drug, not a placebo, a barbiturate that's going to knock you on the ground to slow you down, and they go, "Big giant red pill, this is amphetamine. You're going to be prepared what's going to do for you." To a man or a woman, their bodies speed up." (said at 0:18:15)
No published record matching the claim that Harvard studies administered a barbiturate disguised as an amphetamine and found that every subject's physiological response reversed to stimulation was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"But on the average, every year that you live, science extends your life by about a quarter of a year. So for every four years, you're adding an additional year." (said at 0:45:40)
No published record matching the claim that science extends life expectancy by a quarter of a year for every year lived was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"what Dean has done already is actually go from these pluripotent stem cells to a bone-ligament-bone construct, it can be used for knee or ankle replacement." (said at 1:14:03)
No published record matching the claim that Dean Kamen's team has manufactured a pluripotent stem cell-derived bone-ligament-bone construct for knee or ankle replacement was located; this does not prove the claim false.