And because aging isn't a disease by the commonly accepted definition, it doesn't fit nicely into the system we've built for funding medical research… - David A. Sinclair

the evidence is irrefutable: if you believe climate change is a threat, you can't say that GMOs are, because the evidence that GMOs are safe is stronger than the evidence that climate change is occurring.

The way doctors treat illness today "is simple," wrote S. Jay Olshansky, a demographer at the University of Illinois. "As soon as a disease appears, attack that disease as if nothing else is present; beat the disease down, and once you succeed, push the patient out the door until he or she faces the next challenge; then beat that one down. Repeat until failure."

But consider this: though smoking increases the risk of getting cancer fivefold, being 50 years old increases your cancer risk a hundredfold. By the age of 70, it is a thousandfold