Peter Thiel, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, has joined a multi-million dollar investment in the controversial Enhanced Games, a proposed Olympics-style mega-event without drug testing.
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The idea is the brainchild of Dr Aron D’Souza, the Australian lawyer who helped mastermind Thiel’s proxy war against news media organisation Gawker, which led to Gawker’s bankruptcy in 2016.
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But in a recent interview with The Independent, D’Souza was defiant, and outlined how he hoped the Enhanced Games would not only shake up the world of sport, but would provide a public platform for life-extending science to thrive.
“This is the route towards eternal life,” D’Souza said. “It’s how we bring about performance-medicine technologies, that then create a feedback cycle of good technologies, selling to the world, more revenue, more R&D, to develop better and better technologies.
“And what is performance medicine about? It’s not about steroids and getting jacked muscles. It’s about being a better, stronger, faster, younger athlete for longer. And who doesn’t want to be younger for longer?”
Eddie Izzard - Stoned Olympics
Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters? Well, fair play to you.
(Eddie is now Susie but for the clarity of the link, I used the name under which she performed the sketch)
Unless it changed over the last year, she still uses Eddie Izzard as stage name, so you’re fine either way. (Also it’s Suzy, not Susie for her)
Thank you for correcting me on the spelling!
She chose Suzy and I wanted to honor that by mentioning it too.