A simple monthly injection allows mice to live 25% longer & free from diseases The strategy — the injection of a simple antibody — has already begun to be tested in humans in an attempt to cure ageing

Just think of all the additional years of diligent service our Congress members can offer us!

Ah yes, we shouldn't do research into a condition that harms literally everyone because there are a handful of people we don't like who suffer from it.
- In reality they'd just price it so only the rich can afford it. It's not that complicated.
I’m sure they’ll get the shot added to their medical plans for free while the rest of us have a $5K USD co-pay for it.

Oh cool, so the average age of Congress will be able to reach into the 100s now! Sick! I can't wait to die on the job so our democratically elected leaders can watch over my kids, grandkids, and great-grandkids.

Hah! Running with this thought in a more optimistic path, perhaps 50-100 more years of psychological maturity is exactly what's required for our leaders to reach a more benevolent state.
- Our leaders are all narcissistic. There is hardly any benevolence in them !
- Can we please leave them to stew in their prenatal vats until then, though?
"our" democratically elected leaders
You know the internet isn't just made up of Americans, right? (E.g. I'm Irish & the other 2 mods of this site are Indian & English.)
Why not try and see developments from a global perspective?
- Capitalism is a global phenomenon, and India, England, and Ireland are not immune to it. Who do you think is actually going to benefit from a "cure for aging," given the level of global inequality that exists in the world? Are the impoverished workers in the global south going to see the benefits of a "cure for aging" should one ever come around? How would such a cure even be distributed, and who will be responsible for distributing it? Surely it won't be me or you. I mean, come now, look at what is going on in the UK with their relentless assault on the disabled. Globally, we can't even distribute existing medical treatment in an equitable way! There are still massive COVID-19 outbreaks globally; countries in Africa are still being ravaged by it with very little access to necessary vaccines, still, 5 years on. When I say "our" democratically elected leaders, I am thinking globally. India is run by a bunch of "democratically elected" fascists currently. So is the UK, so is the USA, and there is a nice little far-right movement brewing in Ireland, isn't there? How long until they become the dominant political force there?
  These kinds of "developments" go one of two ways. They either become mothballed because they have no "viability in the market," aka they're not profitable, or they become priced so high and gatekept so thoroughly that the only people who can access them are those who sit in Elysium.
- If you presume Fascism® is somehow a uniquely 'Murican product, you've got some history to read, oppressed. 🙇🏼‍♂️🥲

A cure to aging would sound much better if the current society were not so fucked up.

If this works it will get clained by the rich elite and fuck everyone else

Breaking news: retirement age is increased by 25%
- Oh fuck that! Gimme the suicide booth already!
- Yeah realistically this is what would happen instead of allowing people to enjoy their lives longer.
  I wonder how such an 'anti body' would work in terms of life and health quality for older people that would be taking it.
They have been making auto and semiauto injectors to shorten the lives of the rich elites for a while now. We just need to convince them to take the shot.

They can get more years of service out of us while charging us for this miracle drug. We'll have to keep working to afford our medical bills

Retire at 80, if you're lucky
- Can't afford to retire, need that medical insurance to pay for the miracle drug
Ok but also we get to live 25% longer which sounds like a pretty good tradeoff.

Ea ch injection will cost $1M to make sure only the "right" people get them.

Don't worry, fellow plebs! I'm sure the ruling class'll let us have some.

Not sure we need to "cure" aging...

Could someone get to work on curing stupid first? Then we can work on the aging part.
- Everyone so concerned about artificial intelligence that they forgot natural stupidity is still the biggest unsolved issue.
- cf. “teachers”
If we can live just as long as we do now but in better health it would be amazing.
- 100%
Plenty of underfunded extremely disabling illnesses to spend money on instead of “curing” aging to fulfill rich able bodied people’s fantasies.
- Idk, I'm not rich and id like to stop getting older. Hell, if I could just stay my current age and then die of cancer in 30 years, that'd be great.
Sir/Madame Trebuchet, your cousins of the weighted blade are already a tried & true solution to aristocrat aging.
Also, I think I just found the name for my new anarcho metal band — if you're available to fill in on timpani/kettle drum, et al.
Do you think it is not a widespread or harmful condition?

Nobody tell that fucking weirdo

I don't know that I want the current elderly generation to live longer. Can we hold off on this for.... Idk, say, 15 years until they all die off naturally?

Why? So that you can live longer and the next generation can whine about you?
- I already don't like voting. I'm pretty sure most millennials only vote because there's generally one insane option, and one complete lunatic option, and we just want things to get worse as slowly as possible.
  Give us anything that resembles rational and we'll just let the next generation take the reigns.

what happens if you take it and then stop? Since it adds somekind of antibody, what if it starts replacing/ degenerating your bodys natural system and you get some horrible withdrawal effects if you stop taking it?

Imagine having to pay subscription to stay healthy / alive

Imagine having to pay subscription to stay healthy / alive
This is everyone who takes medication to manage a disease/disorder.
Imagine having to pay subscription to stay healthy / alive
I'm sure they already have the four colour glossy brochures ready for distribution, as well as financing scenarios for the less cash endowed, so that nobody feels excluded. Who wouldn't skip a few meals to be healthy after all?
- For most people, skipping a few meals would already make them healthier.
Health insurance would like to know your location.

Antibody? I’m pro body.

We really seem to be heading torward a Red Rising esque future huh

Oh, good. WCGW? I’m sure the shot will be widely available for a low cost, right?

Awesome!

Sounds good but likely nothing will come of it!

The only thing holding biology and its thousand medical fields is its self imposed ethical restrictions! We can genetically modify rats to have or not to have genetical diseases; we can make them bigger, stronger, live longer… We can make them fucking glow in the dark! But by being in the same class, we are very very very different animals! The large majority if invented medicines will go nowhere as they are almost exclusively tested on rats until the finished product is tried to be licensed…

Not to be misunderstood, I don’t want thousands of baby girls to die in testicular cancer! Nor do I know of a better way, I am just mildly annoyed at the holdback in holding up our duty to humanity

Maybe funding illegal human experiments for longevity on a container ship in international waters is Elon Musk‘s next project.
- What I find disturbing about his brain chips is the lack of news… I would think the guy that bought a social media site, then virtually forced all its users to follow him would brag that he found his cock on the research site… But nothing? I reckon something went awry!
  If some collossal fuckup were to happen/ happened that would bankrupt the whole field for decades!
The rumours suggest China is harvesting organs from uighar prisoners. What's to stop them from using them to test various chemicals?
- International backlash if they wanna use the data as the entirety of its research must be made available to the peers, you can’t forge 1000-s of case studies! Could be done retroactively, but that would add 5-10y down the line
  Also do you know how insanely expensive organs are? I really don’t think those are used for research

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

I think people should age, I think max 80 years is good and after that you are just being a dick

I would rather live healthily for a longer part of my life, than have it extended while sickly and suffering.
Supercentenarians show us up to 120 years at a high quality of life (everything else is being a dick) is feasible in theory.
- Sure we can go for longer but we shouldn't, people need to die, and those 120 year Olds ain't working so they ain't worth shit, 80 gives you enough time to work a give back and than enjoy and than fucking die.
and after that you are just being a dick
Not me. I've started much earlier!