"The longevity industry exists to exploit humanity, not to save it." - Seamus O'Mahony writes @TheLancet Or, as he puts it, "the longevity industry is a goldrush without gold." Talk about throwing out the baby with the bathwater! Of course, the field is drowning in hype and commercial interests pushing unproven interventions. But that doesn't detract from the fact that slowing human aging - even if slightly - would have enormous health and medical benefits. Manipulating human aging may prove harder than many in the field currently promise. But aging is no doubt malleable, so let's not lose sight of the field's long-term transformative potential. The challenge is to tell hype from science, not to dismiss the science because of the hype.