Why idiots like this?

Lingering Longer: Who Will Care?

Someone please tell me why idiots like Leon Kass get all the media coverage about aging, when they apparently know nothing about the point of healthy life extension?  That or they are actively trying to misguide people for some reason I can't fathom.  The point is not to extend the portion of your life where you are old and feeble, but to extend the healthy years you have, and minimize, or even eliminate any time spent in frailty!  Someone tell me why this guy gets the the media attention, and Aubrey de Grey gets almost none?  If we're ever going to get anywhere with funding for research into how to prevent aging, then we need to address these kinds of mis-perceptions that a number of people for some reason want to perpetuate to the rest of the world.  If extending life meant extending only the frail time at the end, then how many would really want to do it?  What we're talking about though is not the extension of the end time, but stretching out everything in the middle, so you have a longer time when you are in your prime.  Ask people the question of would they want to live longer, but stipulate that it would be added to the time when they feel like they're in their 20's and see how many would say yes.