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Opinion: The Biological Age Test Craze Shows How Health Tech Profits From Our Anxiety
Here's what should worry you about the booming "biological age" testing industry: it's not the science. It's who's getting rich while we obsess over n...
Opinion: The 'Biological Age' Test Craze Is Being Sold as Inevitable. It Deserves More Skepticism.
The wellness industry has found its newest frontier: measuring how old you really are at the cellular level. Biological age testing is being marketed ...
Opinion: The Research Translation Crisis Needs Fewer Middlemen, Not More
The distance between a discovery and its usefulness keeps growing. We've built a cathedral of intermediaries between the lab bench and the real world,...
Opinion: We're Fighting Parkinson's Wrong, and That Reveals Why Biology's Whole Playbook Needs Rewriting
Here's what we tell ourselves: science progresses by solving one puzzle at a time. Find the culprit protein. Block it. Problem solved. We've built ent...
Opinion: The 'Individualism Crisis' Is Being Sold as Inevitable. We Should Question That Narrative.
There's a growing intellectual consensus that we're witnessing a fundamental shift in human values. We're becoming more individualistic, the argument ...
Opinion: We're Treating Arctic Collapse Like a Warning. It's Actually a Deadline.
The latest data on Arctic Ocean conditions arrives with the usual scientific language: "passed a tipping point," "may never recover," "irreversible tr...
Opinion: We're Obsessed With Melting Ice. We Should Be Obsessed With What Comes Next.
Every time a glacier calves or an ice shelf destabilizes, we get the same cycle. Scientists issue warnings. Media outlets run dramatic visuals. The pu...
Opinion: The Epigenetic-Aging Narrative Is Seductive, But We're Getting Ahead of the Science
There's a compelling story being sold in health research circles these days: biological aging can be precisely measured and predicted through epigenet...
Opinion: We're Obsessed With Tipping Points. That Might Be the Problem.
The climate conversation has developed a fixation. Tipping points, runaway feedback loops, irreversible thresholds. We talk about them constantly now,...
Opinion: The 'Optimal Robot' Narrative Ignores What We Actually Need
This trend is being sold as inevitable. It deserves more skepticism than it is getting. Recently, headlines celebrated the discovery of an "optimal" r...
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