This Monday we for the first time arranged at Skoltech the real British-Parlament-Style Scientific Debates between teams of students (two Governments vs two Oppositions). The topic of debates was: "Whether The Extracellular Matrix damage is the main root cause of aging?". The Government side tried to convince juries that it it true whilst the opposition team objected this defending the position that matrix is rather the "passenger" than the "driver". Teams proposed their arguments in a form of written documents and then defended their positions in a form of public speaks.

Here I attach the documents with teams' reasoning:

I want to thank the juries: Alexey Alekseev, Ilia Pletenev, Margarita Sidorova, and Evgeniy Efimov for their participate as juries and for the convergence to the final verdict which I consider to be fair - the opposition-2 team has won.