A 48-year-old tech billionaire who spends £1.6 million a year trying to reverse the aging process has revealed his latest bizarre attempt to live forever.
Brian Johnson really doesn’t want to die (Image: Courtesy of Netflix)
Eccentric biohacker Brian Johnson claims to have made a “clone” of a newborn baby to harvest its organs.
The tech billionaire says the “baby” will also be used to test new treatments. “I just cloned myself… as a newborn,” he wrote in a message to X.
The 48-year-old entrepreneur has become known for his stunts to try to reverse the aging process, including transplanting his own son’s blood into his body.
He often performs stunts to defy death.
Last month, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with an incurable autoimmune disease that causes his immune system to mistakenly attack healthy cells in the lining of his stomach.
He announced his intention to “try to solve” the disease, saying that “AI, multi-omics and engineered DNA” should mean that no disease is considered incurable.
Of his latest attempt at a “baby clone” to live forever, he said, “With this clone, I can become my own blood boy, test treatments on the clone, grow organs for transplantation, develop new treatments, and inject young cells.”
He said his “baby Brian” is now in a petri dish (Image: Brian Johnson/Youtube)
He added: “This little Brian is living in a petri dish for now. For some people it may be a scary… bleak future. But for others they will see it as an inevitable future of health.”
Below the post, some fans pointed out the ethical issues that arise when growing a human for “testing.”
One asked: “How does a clone consent to your machinations? What gives you the right to harvest his organs, take his blood, or subject that person to experimentation for your benefit and at your own risk?”
Others accused Johnson of being “evil”, but some backed him: “I don’t think he’s evil. You have stem cells in your body that replace old cells, that’s what they want to do, that’s their function in the universe.”
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