More misinformation from the Cult Education Forum

Hard to know where to start with this, except to say that at least one prominent cryobiologist got into the field precisely because of its applications to cryonics. I heard this cryobiologist, still in good standing in the field, say on the live webcast of a talk he gave recently at a life extension conference that his contribution would not appear on the video records because he feared reprisals from the cryobiological community, even though he has performed defensible research about the preservation of the rabbit hypothalamus through vitrification. Nobody I know of with any influence wants to speak up for this scientist's intellectual freedom.

As for cryonics' organizations alleged exploitation of "elderly, impressionable or dying people desperate not to die," the overwhelming majority of us sign up at relatively young ages and in good health, when we can still get affordable life insurance (the most common means of funding one's cryonic suspension). I signed up at age 31, for example, because I understood early on that we face an emergency, and we need technological solutions for it. In my case, something apparently went wrong with our culture's process of indoctrinating me with its usual terror management fantasies, so I turned to a speculative engineering approach instead. Manage your risk, not your terror.