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Because this is even harder than rocket science. Developing, testing, and marketing a new drug costs on average about a billion dollars. Does it? How much of that is the CYA regulation put in place after the thalidomide disaster? Probably a lot. So? Costs are costs. According to a late friend of mi...

Because this is even harder than rocket science. Developing, testing, and marketing a new drug costs on average about a billion dollars. That's just one drug, for doing one thing slightly better than the last drug, and we're not even getting into cutting edge stuff like stem cells. Development of sp...

When the greens support the greenhouse gas theories, they stand with a large body of scientists, decades of well-funded research, etc. Nordell's stuff is just bad science, and obviously bad at that. I think he's pushing it just for fun, and nobody will take it seriously. Or if the greens do, it'll e...

There is a theory that global warming not comes from greenhouse gas but from the heat produced by fossil fuel burning and nuclear reactors, and the heat from devises using the energy from this sources. If so, fusion would not be a bright idea. This isn't a theory in the scientific source though, an...

How strong will the magnetic fields around a polywell be? Will they largely cancel outside of the device, and how fast will field strength drop off? If you have a sufficiently large magnetic field that it extends well beyond the boundaries of your generator, people might get concerned that it'll con...

I agree, wisdom would raise a large difficulty. If humans could live forever, I'd expect the old (or at least, many of the old) to raise up financial empires and the like based on decades of business acumen and accumulated contacts. It would be very difficult for the young to penetrate into that, ev...

I was assuming that more young would mean more chances for mutations. Most of these mutations would be bad of course (death before reproduction), but a few hopeful monsters would still pop-up here and there. Maybe that is not true? The part where you mention how most mutations are bad is a key poin...

I don't know about the drugs, but I do know calorie restriction is a proven method for lifespan extension in mice. I also recall reading a study that mentioned it not working nearly as well in higher order primates. (It was still somewhat effective) I don't recall where that study was, though. I've...

The less you eat, the slower you age. Maybe. I think this works because it slows down the metabolism and therefore the transcription rate. Huh? Maybe you mean replication rate? What does transcription (creation of RNA) have to do with aging? I've studied several mechanisms of aging and I haven't he...