Re: [DIYbio] DIY longevity biology

I'm not opposed to dollars for advocacy, or even dollars for general
raise-all-boats awareness, I'm just bemoaning the nature of this world,
in which people seem extraordinarily reluctant to actually fund
research. I think it's more than just a matter of the (not particularly
accurate, I think) stereotype of scientists being terrible at
presentation and marketing. Anything but research will do better as a
fundraising project, despite the fact that the research is what gets the
job done - it has to be funded at some point, some collection of
someones has to pull the trigger and hand over the dollars.

Reason

On 10/15/2013 07:34 AM, Joe Gorse wrote:
> It is not sufficient to merely compare the two categories of efforts, one
> scientific and the other fiction storytelling, based purely on the
> technical longevity value. The reasons for why the fiction creative effort
> reaches its fund raising goal in this case might just be that they use
> media well and are simply focused on telling a compelling story, whereas
> scientists tend to often pretend to forgo such details as
> irrelevant--ironically just as most folks go through their lives without
> ever thinking critically about whether or not they would like to opt-in to
> death-by-aging. The Last Generation To Die<http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1956082973/the-last-generation-to-die-a-short-film>kickstarter addresses the larger current need for common ground in having
> that conversation about the need to die-by-aging, which is no small part of
> the current longevity scientist's challenge in bringing his
> post-paradigm-shifted message to the funding agencies, the public, and
> investors.
>
> Some folks I know have contacted Tim Maupin, the director of the The Last
> Generation To Die, and he appears to be legitimately interested for the
> right reasons. As such, if there were a sufficiently high priority
> scientific project that we might recommend as a group, I'll bet we could
> get Tim or some of his associates to help with the media production. That
> would really be the best of both worlds.
>

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