Is Politics Stifling the Best Medical Research?

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SAGE Crossroads have put up the transcript of an interesting interview with Steven Hall, author of Merchants of Immortality. The state of healthy life extension research is discussed, and the transcript gives a good primer on the results of existing and threatened anti-research legislation. We have entered a time of tremendous medical opportunity and progress, progress that strong factions within the US and other governments are attempting to squash. We must not let this happen, so stand up and take action!

Link: http://www.sagecrossroads.com/081203transcript.cfm