X-Message-Number: 32050 From: "gc" <> References: <> Subject: Stern Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:18:40 -0500 Not that I'm worried about Howard Stern's followers, but it irks me that no one in the media has pointed out this guy has been a proven extortionist. Why is Alcor silent? We are a professional organization, that can easily stand up and shut down this nonsense. I thought this was going to just go away, but it doesn't seem to be. The best example I can think of is the whole Tylenol scare of the 80s, just come out, be factual (avoid the ted williams stuff due to confidentially)... In a vacuum, people will believe the only idiot talking, hell I'm starting to think there's truth to the whole can/wrench episode. WE can act like these are normal tools in medical procedures, but we need to stop thinking like cryonicists and think like the media-spoon-fed public that LOVES this kind of gossip (you know, the kind that watch the kardashians and all that other E trash). This could all turn very ugly quickly if we are demonized as a freak show to the public at large, we thought the whole funeral-parlor control crap in AZ was bad, wait until this becomes a national issue and we're banned from these procedures in the US altogether, it will simply be called "oversight". Greg Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32050