X-Message-Number: 27135 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:23:36 -0400 From: Jonathan Hinek <> Subject: Jon Despres The text and urls pasted below were posted to my forum (The Cold Filter) by an anonymous contributor calling himself Cold Cutter. They are a summary of some of Jon Despres' disingenuous activities on said forum, as well as elsewhere on the internet. Since many of his schemes are ostensibly raising money for cryonics causes, I believe his questionable tactics are a concern for us all. -- Jonano is the Ebola virus of cryonics Jonathan Despres (Jonano) told us how popular his NanoAging.com website is http://www.network54.com/Forum/thread?forumid=291677&messageid=1127598723 without telling us how many of his site vistors came thinking they were going to the website of the Gates Foundation, Hughes Medical Foundation, Ellison Medical Foundation, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Gates&diff=prev&oldid=23018241 NanoAging as Gates Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Howard_Hughes&diff=prev&oldid=22825507 NanoAging as Hughes Medical Foundation http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Larry_Ellison&diff=22825623&oldid=22688485 NanoAging as Ellison Medical Foundation This was only part of the large-scale effort at spamming Wikipedia with his website URL http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cancer&diff=prev&oldid=23966210 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mouse&diff=prev&oldid=11735250 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=24.122.51.203 When asked about it he had a memory lapse http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1127616604 Followed by a speculation that his brother had done it http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1127619108 On the welfare issue he gives us his reason for lying http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1126151280 http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1127594930 http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1127606553 If Jonano again became honest enough to admit to his lying, I am sure that we could find other examples of his reasons for lying, including the claim that his 12/13-year-old brother had done the Wikipedia fraud/spamming One the Wikipedia blocks against Jonano was only for 24 hours http://www.network54.com/Forum/message?forumid=291677&messageid=1127648204 I hope that Wikipedia administrators now have the alertness and the means to quickly detect and eradicate any NanoAging.com links that appear anywhere in Wikipedia. Unfortunately, I don't think that we have seen the last of Jonathan Despres. He has left this forum and been banned from other venues, but he has shown no inclination to mend his ways. He has an odd psychopathology mixed with a kind of intelligence, deceiptfulness and enthusiasm for cryonics (which he thinks will make him rich: "I will monopolise cryonics and will become a billionaire like Bill Gates in 2044") which makes him a great danger to the cryonics community. His Fraudulent "Institute" and his endless solicitations for money on behalf of cryonics-related projects are likely to continue to re-appear in other arenas. His is still only in his mid-20s. Now that the cryonics community has been "immunized" against the Despres virus, I hope that we can respond quickly with strong anti-bodies every time a re-infection occurs. -- Jonathan Hinek The Cold Filter http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27135