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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>What resources to you believe as consequential for convincing people that we need better bodies? So much is written, but not so much forms a solid base of evidence.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>For example, yesterday I was watching Dr. Oz. He has a guest who he said was the world’s authority on health and living longer. How does he know this? Dr. Oz is convinced that this man has the perfect diet for living longer (and it rhymes!): Dark Greens and Beans! The guest expert stated that if you follow his diet “You will never be sick again”. Okay we know this is BS. But where is the real evidence that we need better bodies?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The larger issue we are facing is how to convince people that we need interventions to engineer better bodies. Stem cells, nanomedicine, etc. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, let me ask you: What evidence do you have that we need better bodies (graphs, statistics, charges, academic papers, your own expert opinions, etc.)?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Natasha<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Natasha Vita-More, PhD</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=77 height=31 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CE2634.40724AB0" alt="esDESiGN_email"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Co-Editor: The Transhumanist Reader (Wiley-Blackwell Pub.) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Transhumanist-Reader-Contemporary-Technology-Philosophy/dp/1118334310/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363616965&sr=1-1&keywords=the+transhumanist+reader">Available at Amazon!</a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>