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by krapp 3610 days ago
Peter Thiel has expressed public support for, and invested in, numerous life-extension technologies such as human growth hormone and cryogenics. I doubt either Vanity Fair or Inc Magazine (who published the original article[0]) just made up his quotes about an interest in parabiosis as well.

Calling it a "generated" (by that I assume you mean fabricated?) piece seems a bit hyperbolic.

[0]http://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.ht...
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Turing_Machine 3610 days ago
No, by "generated" I meant "generated". If I'd meant "fabricated" I'd have said it.

You can tell that this is a generated hit piece due to Thiel's politics by the very first sentence, which begins "Trump delegate and Gawker bankrupter Peter Thiel...".

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krapp 3610 days ago
I don't disagree with you that Vanity Fair is probably a bit anti-Thiel or anti-right in general, but I don't know what "generated" is supposed to mean in this context. I don't see a lot of mockery or ridicule in this particular article.

I also don't know what the "hit piece" part is supposed to be. He is a Trump delegate, he did finance Gawker's bankruptcy, he does espouse the ideals presented in the article, and he has invested in life-extension technologies. Can it be a hit piece if it's actually correct?

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Turing_Machine 3610 days ago
"He is a Trump delegate, he did finance Gawker's bankruptcy"

Both of which are totally irrelevant to the alleged topic under discussion.

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krapp 3610 days ago
The conflation of Thiel's libertarian ideals with his pursuit of life extension technologies was made by Thiel himself, as quoted in the same article:

     “I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, 
    and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every 
    individual,” he (Thiel) wrote in libertarian journal Cato 
    Unbound seven years ago.
The tone of the article doesn't seem to be mocking him, so I don't think it is a hit piece. If Peter Thiel does literally believe that injecting himself with the blood of young people will extend his life then blame him for that, not the people reporting it.
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