[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.