[eli_gottlieb]

Almost everything related to getting "serious" mesospheric effects in biological systems is a hard problem. Animal bodies really are that complex.

On the other hand, it can still tick me off how aging and anti-aging are, in much of the world, simply not considered medical issues worthy of research at all.

[xaa]

It raises a lot of social and religious implications many would rather not think about.

But we have learned to deal with it. Instead of saying you're studying aging, you say you're studying "age-associated disease X" (which works for almost any X) and the effects of age on X. Or you say, "rising health care costs are a huge problem, and the bulk of costs are in the elderly. Therefore, we want to find ways to reduce age-associated morbidity and thereby lower costs."

Transparent ploys, but they work fairly well.

[eli_gottlieb]

>Or you say, "rising health care costs are a huge problem, and the bulk of costs are in the elderly. Therefore, we want to find ways to reduce age-associated morbidity and thereby lower costs."

I honestly hadn't thought that this isn't a genuine good argument in favor of anti-aging research.

[xaa]

It is a good argument -- both are -- but they aren't the best argument, which is "we want to stop death". But we can't say that.