I have in the past 13 years, made two feature length documentaries. Both played in movie theaters. One, "Orwell Rolls In His Grave" was an examination
of the mainstream news media - Bernie Sanders screened it around Vermont and I appeared on stage with him for Q&A. It came out in 2004.
Within minutes of my first interview with him in the spring of 2001, he was railing on about drug prices. "I just took a bus load of women an hour North to Canada
to get their breast Cancer medicine for one tenth the price. Big pharma is almost a criminal enterprise." So this is one progressive who is a friend to research and against
outrageous drug gouging. The second film was started in late 2006, "To Age Or Not To Age" - where in I have followed interviewed and befriended the major scientists in the area, including Guarente (who knows my children), Sinclair, Kenyon, Kennedy Aubrey and others - It came out in 2010. Scientists are overwhelmingly liberal.
In fact, I had a most interesting discussion with David Sinclair in which we discussed GB Shaw's idea that man must live to 300 years at least, and that human nature is tied to lifespan: if lifespan and heralthspan can be radically increased this might be the impetus for people to care about the environment, to take a longer view of things.
He agreed with this idea, as did Irina Conboy, the stem cell biologist in Berkeley. So, in my observations I have to disagree with you.
Edited by to age or not to age, 12 December 2017 - 06:44 PM.