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posted by martyb on Wednesday February 20 2019, @03:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the Vamp-ire? dept.

Taking a young person's plasma and infusing it into an older person to ward off aging -- a therapy that's fascinated some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley -- has no proven clinical benefit, the Food and Drug Administration said.

The agency issued a safety alert on Tuesday about the infusion of plasma from young donors for the prevention of conditions such as aging or memory loss, or for the treatment of such conditions as dementia, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease or postā€traumatic stress disorder.

"There is no proven clinical benefit of infusion of plasma from young donors to cure, mitigate, treat or prevent these conditions, and there are risks associated with the use of any plasma product," the FDA said in a statement from Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and Peter Marks, head of the agency's biologics center.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/beware-of-buying-young-people-s-blood-to-prevent-aging-fda-says


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 21 2019, @04:52AM (3 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 21 2019, @04:52AM (#804381) Journal

    You mean... pay those damn'd leftie researchers millions to do mumbo-jumbo sciency stuff; then - shudders - get the Nobel price and fame?

    Which has what to do with living longer?

    You'll want to tax me to fund the research in that global warming hoax?

    You know, if it was important to you, you could always fund these things with your own money. This is always the game with public funding of science. It's a great way to transfer funds from tax payers to political connected researchers. But not so great for actually doing research.

    Sure, it's fun to mock the ignorant lugs, but for the money actually thrown at research, we should be getting more.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 21 2019, @07:24AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 21 2019, @07:24AM (#804415) Journal

    Which has what to do with living longer?

    Nothing at all. But if you, at your age, still believe in a 'rational economic agent's, then you have some aging to do ahead of you. This assuming that you use the time of your life to learn something.

    You know, if it was important to you, you could always fund these things with your own money... [etc]

    Offtopic, just letting yea know I ain't gonna bite it.

    Sure, it's fun to mock the ignorant lugs, but for the money actually thrown at research, we should be getting more.

    Expectations vs actuals... isn't it the essence of all this fun in a human life?

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday February 21 2019, @02:07PM (1 child)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 21 2019, @02:07PM (#804505) Journal

      Nothing at all. But if you, at your age, still believe in a 'rational economic agent's, then you have some aging to do ahead of you. This assuming that you use the time of your life to learn something.

      What I believe is that you just made a large non sequitur argument. Rational agent theories are irrelevant to the topic. Nor do I believe that we have to be more stupid than we are just because somewhere in the world there are stupid people who made stupid choices.

      Offtopic, just letting yea know I ain't gonna bite it.

      That just means it's not important to you. Funny how things become oh so important when other peoples money can be spent on it instead.

      Expectations vs actuals... isn't it the essence of all this fun in a human life?

      I'll need a lot of funding before I'll buy that argument (or rather before you sell that argument).

      I get that you just want to babble like so many other people on SN. But it would be nice, if when you criticized someone, even a straw man, you didn't become even dumber than the target you criticized. At least, they have a reason with some bit of intellectual basis (the "pay those damn'd leftie" pseudorant), even if it was a terrible reason.

      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday February 21 2019, @08:37PM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday February 21 2019, @08:37PM (#804697) Journal

        I'll need a lot of funding before I'll buy that argument (or rather before you sell that argument).

        That argument is not for sale. I may make an exception for your case and let you use it occasionally, for a small recurring membership fee.

        Over and out!

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