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From: "Joe Waynick" <>
Subject: Comparing Organizations -- Final Post
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:57:58 -0700
Without a doubt I believe Mr. Ettinger s suggestion that avoiding direct
comparisons has merit. What Mr. Ettinger doesn t understand is that such a
suggestion has to be mutual and not just apply to Alcor. Mr. Ettinger asked
for specifics and I referred him to a specific page on his own website that
contains example after example of direct and indirect comparisons with
Alcor. No such page appears on Alcor s website, at this time. Alcor does not
need to misrepresent the practices of other organizations to tout its own
capabilities. Our capability and services stand on their own merits.
However, I do believe that the public should be properly informed of the
technological advantages of Alcors protocols to counteract the berating
Alcor receives on the CI comparisons page.
Alcor not only links to CI from its website, we also link to two
separate website pages supported by Ben Best. Pages that heavily promote the
CI perspective of cryonics I might add. In addition, Alcor refers potential
patients to CI several times a year. There is no lack of goodwill efforts on
the part of Alcor toward CI. In fact, Alcor has inked to every other
cryonics organization for years. Something that Mr. Ettinger would know if
he had merely taken the time to look at our links page before
misrepresenting Alcor yet again.
There is a reason that Alcor is the world leader in membership,
financial stability, and technology. It is because when potential members
study the issues, most recognize the superiority of our procedures and value
the importance of immediate application of medications and temperature
decent vs. allowing the onset of brain ischemia. It is also because most
people recognize the wisdom of the fiscally conservative method pioneered by
Alcor to ensure not only the long-term care of our patients, but to aid in
their eventual revival using the Patient Care Trust. No regulatory body had
to impose that duty upon us. We invented it. Our members also recognize the
value of using the best technology available with our customized Transport
Vehicle (to be put into services this year), our expanded operating room
project (of which CI has none because their procedures are performed in a
MORTUARY), and our Patient Care Bay expansion project to allow us to care
for up to 900 new patients in our existing facility. We are able to do these
things because Alcor is a full service cryonics facility, not a cemetery
that stores dead bodies.
Alcor will continue to do what it has always done. Provide the very
best patient transport, cryoprotection, and long-term maintenance services
available. We will continue with our in-house research projects. We will
continue providing research grants for advances in nanotechnology
cryobiology. We will continue to provide funding to the best research
laboratories in the country to improve our cryoprotection capability. What
we will NOT DO is waste another minute in this pointless verbal exchange. It
has already consumed far more of my time than it warrants.
If Mr. Ettinger truly wants a no comparison d tente, then he needs to
stop the justification for the outlandish comparisons and misrepresentations
on his own website, and simply remove them. But this hypersensitivity to a
single benign statement to the press about a completely unrelated matter is
absurd. Enough said.
--jw
CEO/President
Alcor Life Extension Foundation
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Alcor Life Extension Foundation
7895 E. Acoma Dr., Suite 110, Scottsdale AZ 85260-6916
Membership Information: (877) GO-ALCOR (462-5267)
Phone (480) 905-1906 FAX (480) 922-9027
for general requests.
Visit our website at: http://www.alcor.org or to subscribe to our monthly
newsletter go to: http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/AlcorNews.
The Alcor Life Extension Foundation was founded in 1972 as a non-profit,
tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization, and has 64 patients in cryostasis. Alcor
is the world's largest provider of professional cryotransport services with
over 680 members who have pre-arranged for cryopreservation. Alcor's
Emergency CryoTransport System (ECS) is a medical-style rescue network
patterned after the Emergency Medical System (EMS). Alcor CryoTransport
Technicians, as with EMTs and Paramedics on an ambulance, are advised by our
Medical Director and Advisory Board consisting of MDs, PhDs, cryobiologists,
scientists, and other members of the scientific research community who are
Alcor members and/or contract physicians.
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