Re: MEDIA: MSNBC on Cryonics

From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 09:48:54 MDT


Brian D Williams wrote:

>It started out with Jim actually touring Alcor with the staff and
>then cut to video of Greg Fahy in his lab demonstrating his
>research on using cryonics to preserve organs for transplant. Under
>Greg' head shot they displayed the name of the company, 21st
>Century Medicine. Greg came off as a total professional doing
>extremely valuable research that could benefit all mankind.
>They went on to explain that the new protocol invented by Greg was
>now being used by Alcor and would be used on Ted Williams.

Though I have been somewhat out of the cryonics loop for the past six month
(other than this list and CryoNet), I still think that Greg Fahy and people
like him are the only ones who can lend some credibility to cryonics. When
I was with Kryos Biomedical in Rancho Cucamonga, I was fortunate enough to
meet Greg a few times, and get regular updates from 21CM on vitrification
solutions and experimentation on pig (?) kidneys.

In the eyes of the public, I think that the only thing that will lend
cryonics credibility is to reinforce the image that it is indeed
science. Otherwise, it just comes off as looking like a bizarre, amoral cult.

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