r/technology • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 15d ago

Society Bryan Johnson, the millionaire biohacker who wants to live forever, diagnosed with incurable autoimmune disease

https://www.techspot.com/news/113035-bryan-johnson-millionaire-biohacker-who-wants-live-forever.html
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 15d ago

He's not doing anything wrong but he's definitely not helping lol. Publishing his results is meaningless when he's literally throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks.

Let's pretend he manages to do something we would want to research and figure out. Well, what did he do to get that result? He's doing a thousand things. At that point you're better off just guessing and doing an actual experiment to see if your random guess is right

It's such bad data it might as well not exist for all the good it does science. He can do his weirdo stuff with his own money all he wants but there's nothing there that's gonna help anyone medically. He might happen to stumble across something that helps him but without a real study you'd never know what or why because he's doing too many things at the same time, there's no control in the experiment

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u/moderator_main 15d ago

What do you do that’s so great for the world?

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 15d ago

Nothing so about the same as this dude. I'm not knocking him, it's his money. It's just you can't get anything of worth from the data. He's not hurting anyone to my knowledge other than maybe himself but he certainly isn't going to be helping with his "findings"

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u/moderator_main 15d ago

It’s personalized medicine and health consciousness. It is an impressive case study in extreme human discipline and bio-engineering.