Wednesday, February 23, 2005

World Transhumanism Association - Aging IS an engineering problem

World Transhumanism Association - Aging IS an engineering problem:
"This morning I found out that the current issue of the magazine contains an even more disturbing editorial 'Against Transcendence' by Jason Pontin. The editorial shares with the article a complete lack of appreciation of scientific facts and the scientific method, and has even more hooliganish personal attacks against de Grey, e.g. 'he dresses like a shabby graduate student and affects Rip Van Winkle’s beard; he has no children; he has few interests outside the science of biogeron­tology; he drinks too much beer. Although he is only 41, the signs of decay are strongly marked on his face. His ideas are trollish, too'"