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Subject: Re: Cryonics Quackwatch -- another "warning label"
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 04:13:36 GMT

  Jon Despres (aka "The NanoAging Institute <>") wrote:

> If you are thinking about CryoQuebec I just posted a message about my
> new strategy. I am charging 55 000$CAD to people, I pay the 28 000$US
> and the 1250$ to CI and the 5000$ to SA, the rest of the money I use
> it to advertise furthermore CryoQuebec on TV, Journals, Web Sites.

   As President of the Cryonics Institute (CI) I hereby post public 
warning that CI does not have an agreement with Jon Despres for cryonics
services to a "CryoQuebec" (aka JD). Nor is there any possibility of an
an agreement in the future unless Jon shows a radical improvement in his 
judgement and responsibleness. 

   $5,000 cannot pay for any SA Standby and Transport. There is a 
mandatory completion fee of $30,000 ($25,000 for locals in South Florida) 
which can be paid for through insurance. The minimum deployment 
(72-hours) for Standby is $7,500 ($4,500 for locals in South Florida).  
A deployment cannot be made if funding is not in place for the 
completion fee.

    As a personal statement (not speaking for CI) I warn everyone not to
send any money to Jon for any of his so-called organizations (CryoPrize,
NanoAging Institute, CryoQuebec,...) -- and do not lend credence to his 
activities by allowing use of your name on any of his "Boards". 

    I do appreciate that Jon is sincere and enthusiastic. I even 
appreciate his initiative and his goals. But although his goals are 
noble, I believe he is poisoning the well with his projects, and may make
future (credible) projects of a similar nature more difficult. This is 
especially the case if naive people of note agree to be figureheads on his 
Boards and if uninformed people send money to those organizations. 

    It is not my intention to hurt Jon's feelings and I dearly wish I knew
a means by which his enthusiasm could become constructive. But for now
he reminds me of a child who has just learned to ride a tricycle and who
is piloting a bomb-laden B52 over a major metropolitan area. 

                       -- Ben Best

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