X-Message-Number: 10385 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:59:09 -0400 From: Saul Kent <> Subject: Cryobiologists And Cryonics Bob Ettinger's statement that some cryobiologists were friendly towards cryonics before they realized we weren't going to provide funding for their research is true. In the 1960s, cryobiologist Armand Karow, Jr. wrote a monthly column for Cryonics Reports, the newsletter of the Cryonics Society of New York. We also had a Scientific Advisory Board that included several eminent cryobiologists. Arthur Rowe was never a member of this Board, but I spoke with him on several occasions, and even asked him for advice (which he gave me) about how to freeze a cryonics patient. If we had provided money to support the research of mainstream cryobiologists in those early years, I think they would have continued to remain friendly towards cryonics. However, in the absence of money from cryonicists, the cryobiologists have not only become hostile towards cryonics, they have also failed in the kind of research (organ cryopreservation) most needed to make cryonics more credible. But things are different now. 21st Century Medicine now has a well-funded research program that is generating the kind of results necessary to improve cryonics methods, gain greater credibility for cryonics, and achieve suspended animation. In fact, 21st's cryobiologists are clearly proving to be the best in the business, and outside cryobiologists are lining up to work with and for the company. Cryonicists will soon have the opportunity of investing in this research. 21CM's research has great commercial potential in the short term; and even greater potential in the longer term of improving our odds of survival, increasing the credibility of cryonics, and leading to revolutionary changes in medicine and society. You can find out about all these things by attending the 21CM Seminar and Tour on Sunday, Nov. 8. The Seminar will be held at the Marriott Hotel (near Ontario Airport) in the morning, with a tour of 21CM's two buildings in the afternoon. For further information about this event, please contact Brenda Peters in Southern California at: 818-993-6903 or 909-466-8633 or e-mail her at: ---Saul Kent, CEO 21st Century Medicine Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10385