Are you prepared to live forever?

De Grey, you see, is not, as he is sometimes
mistaken to be, a professor of genetics at
Cambridge but a half-time research associate with
a day job managing a genetics database.

Pay attention here. Watch these people on the
fringes. They will be the new Renaissance Folks.
The Academics are generally dolts.

To distinguish themselves from the charlatans
and hype purveyors, mainstream academics tend to
be circumspect about the work they do in the
biology of aging. But in the past 15 years, the
field has been revved by startling breakthroughs.
The human genome, our entire complement of DNA,
has been decoded, opening the possibility of
tinkering with our genetic makeup. And scientists
are learning to manipulate embryonic stem cells
to make them grow into any kind of tissue. The
long-term implications of these discoveries have
barely been teased out by biologists, who tend to
be cautious by nature and training. So the
speculative arena has been left largely to a
theoretician, de Grey, who wouldn’t know a DNA
analyzer from a protein sequencer but who is
promoting the unthinkable: that the human race
is on the verge of figuring out how to live darn
near forever. [My emphasis]
...

De Grey’s scientific career, like everything
else about him, smacks of oddness and self-
invention.

More evidence of genius. Learn to spot 'em. This
is important. Very important.

He is essentially self-taught,...

The Big Clue above just jumped up an' bit me on
the ass! Do you see it? This fucker don' know what
can't be done, then proceeds to do it...well, at
least he talks about doing it.

Sorry to let you down here.

[hypothesis]
The secret to aging will also be found in the ingestion
of colloidal gold, maybe even in colloidal silver.
[/hypothesis]

You probably heard it here first.

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