Commentary: Is Life Extension Today a Faustian Bargain?

摘要

Imagine that in a research field, which flourishes on funds allocated for getting an answer to a pressing question, the answer is eventually found. There will be no need to support the field any further. Specialists who sacrificed their lives to developing it will be uncompetitive in other fields, which are being developed by other scholars. That is, science, unlike practice, needs questions, not answers, which may have value for science only as far as they provoke further questions. In this regard, the value of the commented opinion paper (1) is unquestionable.