"Investors in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries aren't committing billions of dollars, largely because society hasn't clearly decided whether the research is moral.
Kass is openly in favor of banning attempts to increase the healthy human life span, and in favor of blocking stem cell research and therapeutic cloning. Now if only all the worthless pill and potion merchants elsewhere would take note and start in on real, worthwhile medical research in their own fields .
Accordingly, I have put together a visualization of the wider community and surrounding interest groups.
This work will benefit us all as it percolates into other, more beneficial, attempts to regenerate the damage caused by aging and disease.
If we want a future of better medicine and longer, healthier lives, then we must support researchers and speak out against anti-research legislation. It isn't quite living color, I'll admit, but this map of the healthy life extension community does look pretty in the right light.
You will recall that excess weight is reliably linked to a greatly increased risk of just about every horrible age-related condition known to man. Advanced Cell Technology is in Massachusetts, and you may recall that Harvard University is currently working to establish a large stem cell center. Leon Kass holds a set of highly unethical views on medicine and I'd like to see them challenged more often.