X-Message-Number: 23770
From: "Kitty Antonik Wakfer" <>
Subject: Countering Misleading Statements and Hucksterism (Ref Message #23645)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 01:41:10 -0700

> Message #23645
> From: "Reason" <>
> Subject: Methuselah Foundation: Join The Three Hundred
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 02:35:03 -0800
>
> The Methuselah Foundation have launched their latest initiative this week.
> You can now show your support for serious efforts to extend the healthy
> human life span by joining The Three Hundred:
>
> http://www.longevitymeme.org/projects/join_the_three_hundred.cfm
>
> -----------------
>
> For the price of a cup of coffee per day, would you like to join a select
> group of humanitarians who will be remembered for their vision and saving
> millions of lives?
>

<snip>

The above post was also concurrently placed on the sci.life-extension and
sci.cryonics newsgroups. In all 3 locations for 10 days no one made a
response. Paul Wakfer has now done so on those newsgroups with his usual
direct and insightful manner, pointing out numerous misleading statements
and highly exaggerated ones (hucksterism) within the organization's
announcement and even moreso in the surrounding text by the poster.

In addition, so that he cannot be criticized for merely finding fault
without offering a solution, Paul has provided a rewritten version of the
organization announcement that is emotionally sincere and moving while being
factual and non-misleading.
http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=4f0e9375.0403
272056.67dac204%40posting.google.com&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26group%3Dsci.li
fe-extension  (Be sure to pick up the entire link.)


**Kitty Antonik Wakfer

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