Morley Safer interviewed the founders of Sirtris, a company planning a pill form of resveratrol, a compound found in red wine. He ended up doing a lot of cheerleading. Among the untested claims the show let slide: that a pill could forestall diseases in our 50s, 60s and 70s, and that it works using the body's natural defenses against Alzheimer's, cancer and diabetes.rnThough it's often a paragon of journalistic rigor, 60 Minutes has a record of falling short on health issues.
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