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Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by echelon on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:05PM (#37267039)
> No medical intervention is without risk

Risk will dramatically decrease with advances.

> That you think this is a trivial problem shows that you’re largely ignorant of some 30 years of research and clinical debate.

Biologists are still doing punch card-level stuff. If we started cloning monoclonal, antigen-free bodies in massive body farms and performing head transplants, that'd solve almost every non-cranial disease. I could see that becoming a preventative solution to aging, too. Renewed cardiovascular health, clean lungs, thymus, etc.

Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:06PM (#37267060)
"This isn't a problem because of science fiction" isn't a terribly realistic answer to the concerns being raised.
Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by echelon on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:11PM (#37267095)
> "This isn't a problem because of science fiction" isn't a terribly realistic answer to the concerns being raised.

This isn't a step function difficult thing to do [1-3]. Nobody is doing it because it's "icky".

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5116034/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6511668/

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112

Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by SketchySeaBeast on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:14PM (#37267126)
But it is. Giant body farms of clones raised without the benefit of a womb that we then decapitate and reattach our heads to is a non-trivial enterprise.
Re:Wealthy People Are Getting Full-Body Scans. Early Detecti... by echelon on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @06:03PM (#37314740)