Great Washington Post overview of the spectrum of life-extension enthusiasts and businesses, from sober starvation advocates to rip-snortin', head-freezin' extropians. I love this quote from Stewart Brand, who is taking anti-aging "nurtritional supplements" called Junvenon: "This is great stuff. I'm beginning to remember the '60s,"
"Flat-Earthers" is how Ronald Klatz, 47, describes his detractors. Klatz is president of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, or A4M, an organization that boasts 11,500 practitioners in 65 countries whose official slogan is: "Aging is not inevitable! The war on aging has begun!"
"Remember 'Animal Story' by Orson Welles?" asks Klatz.
You mean "Animal Farm" by George Orwell?
"Maybe," he replies. "But it's four legs good, two legs bad."
He sees the science and medical establishments as out to get him.
"The guys in the bow ties and suspenders are right and anybody who says otherwise is wrong," he says sarcastically. He lists Science, Scientific American and the Journal of the American Medical Association as publications that "sandbagged anti-aging medicine without justification and without science. They rubber-stamped all those supposed scientists" from such noted institutions as the University of Chicago and the University of California San Francisco.
Klatz believes that within 10 years, we will begin to achieve "the technology necessary to accomplish mankind's oldest wish: practical immortality — life-spans of 200 years and beyond," as he wrote in a recent article in the magazine the Futurist. "Humankind will evolve toward an Ageless Society, in which we all experience boundless physical and mental vitality
(Thanks, Alex!)
