Aubrey de Grey also affirms that I "pissed him off a lot" - and that he is "polyamorous." http://bit.ly/awI8q5
1:11 PM - 23 Oct 2010
on for ELEVEN years!
Pontin is the editor of MIT Technology Review. de Grey is a life-extensionist. In 2005 Pontin wrote an insulting ad hominem editorial about de Grey for the magazine. Letters of protest flooded the magazine from shocked readers and I posted my own outrage here at the time. The personal nature of Pontin's attacks continued, in 2010 above, and last year:
Jason Pontin
October 5, 2016, 10:09 pm
*Of course* the data supports the theory there is an upper limit to human life. Increases in longevity have been slowing for years.
All serious biogerontologists have intuited this. Who disputes the dark truth? Nonscientific people like Aubrey de Grey, that's who. Nerd religious thinkers.
All serious biogerontologists have intuited this. Who disputes the dark truth? Nonscientific people like Aubrey de Grey, that's who. Nerd religious thinkers.
Now, de Grey is at least as much a scientist as Pontin. Why has Pontin been, always been, so personal? What does de Grey being polyamorous have to do with anything?
Pontin, in response to "Dan Lyons," who defended de Grey last year, wrote,
"I was at boarding school with Aubrey, you know, Dan Lyons?"
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Is Jason Pontin gay or bi or poly? Did he and de Grey have something at Harrow? There is no relevance of any of this to the debate. Maybe Pontin is so personal in his criticism because it is personal to him. Whatever is going on here, MIT has got to see that this is an embarrassment to MIT and they have to stop it.
