Like it or not, life-extension research extends beyond biogerontology
Lord Kelvin, once President of the Royal Society, notoriously asserted in 1895 that "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." Ignoring such unenviable precedents, in this issue of EMBO reports, Warner and 27 other biogerontologists dismiss strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS) as 'scientifically' unrealistic (Warner et al, 2005). Like Kelvin, they forget that engineering—of which life extension will be an example, as all medicine is—differs profoundly from science in its goals, methods and skills.
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I offer no apology for using media interest in life extension to make the biology of ageing an exception to Planck's observation that science advances funeral by funeral: lives, lots of them, are at stake.
Aubrey D.N.J. de Grey[rest of article here]
I offer no apology for using media interest in life extension to make the biology of ageing an exception to Planck's observation that science advances funeral by funeral: lives, lots of them, are at stake.
Going to sleep now...
