Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/07/lobbying-efforts-for-the-development-of-means-to-treat-aging-are-at-a-very-early-stage/
That so many people turn their hand to lobbying government is a sad statement of the character of our era. Those engaged in getting things done start to feel, at some level of funding, that lobbying is a necessary defense on the one hand, against Big Pharma entities who will use regulators to impede and coerce competition, and on the other hand a way to access greater funding and publicity. The trough of public funds is ever an attractive proposition, and never as easy to access without tainting everything involved as people would like to think it is. A world with smaller, less powerful governments would be a world in which one could focus on the important matters, which is to say building the means to treat aging, creating the necessary technological capabilities.
We don’t live in that world, unfortunately, and thus a good many people see th…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/07/lobbying-efforts-for-the-development-of-means-to-treat-aging-are-at-a-very-early-stage/
That so many people turn their hand to lobbying government is a sad statement of the character of our era. Those engaged in getting things done start to feel, at some level of funding, that lobbying is a necessary defense on the one hand, against Big Pharma entities who will use regulators to impede and coerce competition, and on the other hand a way to access greater funding and publicity. The trough of public funds is ever an attractive proposition, and never as easy to access without tainting everything involved as people would like to think it is. A world with smaller, less powerful governments would be a world in which one could focus on the important matters, which is to say building the means to treat aging, creating the necessary technological capabilities.
We don’t live in that world, unfortunately, and thus a good many people see th…
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