Right Wing Billionaires Funding what Ails Them

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Everyone remembers how trump wanted to use public funds to cure himself. Trump plans to cure herpes by the end of second term "Sources inside of the White House tell The Chronicle that President Donald J. Trump is planning a major campaign pledge to commit more than $1 billion to cure the herpes virus before the end of his second term.... “He will be pledging more than $1 billion in matching grants to fund large scale clinical trials of various pharmaceutical treatments and combinations of treatments of the virus.”

Now that the Saudi's are again awash in oil cash. The Saudi state wants to spend a billion a year to cure whats of utmost concern to the royal family. Ageing. They are worried that their personal piggy banks will outlive themselves.Anyone who has more money than they know what to do with eventually tries to cure aging. "Google founder Larry Page has tried it. Jeff Bezos has tried it. Tech billionaires Larry Ellison and Peter Thiel have tried it. Now the oil-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which has around as much money as all of them put together, is going to try it.

The Saudi royal family has started a not-for-profit organization called the Hevolution Foundation that plans to spend up to $1 billion a year of its oil wealth to investigate the biology of aging and find ways to extend the number of years people live in good health.

The vast sum, which dwarfs American aging research spending, could make the Gulf state the largest single sponsor of researchers attempting to understand the underlying causes of aging—and how it might be slowed down with drugs. But US research organizations considering whether to take Saudi Arabia’s money will be forced to contend with the specter of its human rights record"