Gilberto Lopes, Chief, Division of Medical Oncology at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, shared on LinkedIn:
“Faust is often misremembered as a parable against knowledge, a warning never to push too far. But his downfall is not curiosity. It is impatience. He goes to Mephistopheles not because he loves darkness but because he cannot bear the ordinary tempo of truth. He wants illumination without effort, transcendence without discipline. His bargain is speed over understanding.
That bargain, restated in the idiom of mitochondria and molecular pathways, is the one the longevity industry is now offering – and the one that turns a genuine scientific program into a commercial enterprise that outruns its own evidence.
The Longevity Industry’s Faustian Bargain: Selling a Shortcut Biology Hasn’t Approved – ASCO Connection.”
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