>>11831094It does work for every grifter, but I personally don't think Aubrey is a grifter at all. I think he's totally sincere and genuinely dedicated his life to longevity research.
As proof he's not just some rube, despite not being a mathematician he solved a random mathematical problem for fun in his spare time which had been unsolved for 60+ years:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/And if you listen to him talk in the podcast I linked, I think you can see he's not trying to sell you anything. He isn't profiting off of any of this (though I think he deserves to profit if he does really produce some effective breakthrough). He's a hard science guy who wants to stop aging.