There are a lot of things Peter Theil doesn’t like: Nick Denton, for instance. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. And, evidently, his own mortality. The thought of dying seems to terrify him even though life, as they say, only has meaning via death.
A deep dive into the 48-year-old now out & proud gay Republican’s not-so-distant past by Vanity Fair takes a look at his nearly decade-long obsession with living forever. Or at least living for a really, really, really long time.
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Seven years ago, Thiel wrote an op-ed in Cato Unbound, an online libertarian journal, explaining his opposition to death: “I stand against confiscatory taxes, totalitarian collectives, and the ideology of the inevitability of the death of every individual.”
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Then two years ago, he opened up to Bloomberg TV about his plans to live to be at least 120 years old thanks to a magical human-growth hormone pill he was taking. “It helps maintain muscle mass, so you’re much less likely to get bone injuries, arthritis,” he claimed.
Now, it seems he’s considering a new tactic: Injecting himself with the blood of young people.
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Inc. magazine just published a year-old interview with Thiel in which the Silicon Valley billionaire discusses parabiosis. (If you don’t know what that is, Google defines it as “the anatomical joining of two individuals, especially artificially in physiological research.”) In Thiel’s case, he’s talking about transfusing the blood of a younger person into the body of an older person in an effort to possibly reverse the affects of aging.
“I’m looking into parabiosis stuff, which I think is really interesting,” he explained. “This is where they did the young blood into older mice and they found that had a massive rejuvenating effect. And so that’s . . . that is one that . . . again, it’s one of these very odd things where people had done these studies in the 1950s and then it got dropped altogether. I think there are a lot of these things that have been strangely under-explored.”
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Hmmm. We’re pretty sure both Queen Elizabeth I and Madam LaLurie tried this already, and it didn’t work out well for either of them.
Maybe the third time’s the charm?
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Wiell it’s worked for Dustin Lance Black…so far
tutututu
Surely you mean Elizabeth Báthory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory not Queen Elizabeth I?
DCguy
Since gay Republicans like to lie about most other things, claiming that their party isn’t anti-gay, that Trump is better for lgbts, maybe Thiel could just lie and say he is 1000 years old and all of the Log Cabiners would go “Ooooooooo! We believe you!”
dwes09
Yet another example of how the right favors wishful thinking and myth over reality. There is a good reason so many avenues of research get dropped. It is called the scientific method. If results are not repeatable or theory proves weak, they are dropped. The right prefers to see that as some sort of conspiracy.
Think of things like laetrile, peroxide infusion, orgone therapy and so on. The right wing conspiracy folks cling to them and claim the powers that be suppressed research. Same with climate change, they see no difference between the overwhelming mass of observations done by unfettered academic researchers, and a tiny few studies bankrolled by the fossil fuel industry. The nature of science is beyond them.
jack512
Thiel is a gay vampire. LOL.
Kangol
Peter Thiel: talk about a figurative vampire becoming a literal one!
Mo Bro
Queerty is bashing a gay Republican?
It must be a day that ends with “y”.
Paco
@dwes09: Because wishful thinking ‘Trumps’ empirical evidence in the minds of Republicans.
robho3
@Mo Bro: no they are showing how batshit crazy that man is.
Doughosier
You just know this guy would eat babies if he thought it would make him younger.
dwes09
@Paco: Because wishful thinking ‘Trumps’ empirical evidence in the minds of Republicans.
Damn! Why didn’t I say that!! Succinct and amusing. My hat is off to you.
barkomatic
Well, I have been “anatomically joined” with a number of younger guys and I’m still assessing the results. I think my study may need to continue for many years.
mastik8
Well done Queerty, you pull the strings and the puppets dance. Does the power excite?
MarionPaige
the proven way of extending life is eating less. Thiel doesn’t look like he’s on a subsistence diet. But Hey,
The man responsible for ridding the world of Nick Denton and Gawker should be given some slack.
KM201
Months ago, I said that this man was a total neo nazi and someone our community should not support. I’m glad that some are starting to turn on him, but more work needs to be done.
Tobi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdI3Djrquzs
Tobi
*oops* I didn’t mean to post the entire movie but just the trailer… !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUtyVg4a6zs
Celtic
It might be more fun and enjoyable to suck and swallow. That would give him a protein boost as well.
ErikO
@PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID: DLB takes raw poz loads as shown by that video of him that he put online.
darkanser
@tutututu: I was just thinking the same thing. If I recall correctly she was the one who used to sacrifice young peasant girls to maintain her youth and beauty.
i43neile
I think he misunderstood a study where transfusion of blood from young people to geriatric patients with Alzheimer’s disease helped slow down the progress and restore memory.
He’s better off getting IV Vitamin B6 P5P and a low carb diet.
Sluggo2007
So, in other words, he’s got AIDS and this is how he’s going to explain how he got it.
Dave084
Well at least we know that being a Republican is not the only thing that makes him batshit crazy.
daxxter
He’s a little late to the Fountain of Youth Party.