Sorry Dr. Coughlin, “aging” and “old age” are real, and they suck
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Aging denialism must be overcome
Sorry Dr. Coughlin, “aging” and “old age” are real, and they suck Aging denialism must be overcome Dan Elton May 23, 2023 12 11 Share Coughlin’s audience spontaneously started clapping when he proclaimed that “old age” is made up in 2021 . Recently I attended a talk at the Broad Institute by Joseph Coughlin, who runs the “AgeLab” at MIT. I was shocked and disturbed by what I heard. In Coughlin’s view of reality, the elderly do not actually become less capable as they age, it’s just that society thinks they do. According to Coughlin, the elderly are unfairly cast out from society, forced to spe
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