X-Message-Number: 6728
From: John de Rivaz <>
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Re: research perspective
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 10:18:09 +0100
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References: <4u4cuh$> <4ug565$> 
<4ugk4n$>

I disagree.

A network marketing scheme provides financial rewards to participants.

What is proposed here is *not* going to give a financial reward to 
participants, but what it will do is to increase public awareness of 
cryonics. I have proposed elsewhere those who can *easily* afford it donate 
funds to an Omni style competition in their own area. This would provide 
provide at least one fellow cryonicist in that area. If there are alredy 
several cryonicists operating in one town or area they may be able to club 
together to fund it.

No cryonics organisation that I know of pays comissions to recruiters. I 
and others have argued elsewhere that if you want to fund your cryonic 
suspension by network marketing that is fine, just network market something 
else and apply the proceeds to cryonics. 

Cryonics and network marketing are controversial issues. Combine them and 
the chance of finding someone who agrees to both at once is vanishingly 
small. 

In addition, network marketing is an affront to people who are in 
professions, guilds or cartels which practise conventional marketing and 
advertising. At present, network marketing seems to add a greater overhead 
to products. (Compare the price of an Amway product with a similar one in 
the conventional market). I do not understand why this should be so, and 
maybe someone will solve the problem, and then the cartels will be really 
unhappy.

In article: <4ugk4n$>   (Magnus 
Redin) writes:
> 
>  (Anonymous) writes:
> 
> >In article <4u4cuh$>,  wrote:
> 
> >> 3. Instead of spending the money on research directly, spend it on
> >> cryonics public relations and recruitment. No organization has ever
> >> had that kind of money for that purpose, and in my opinion it is
> >> NEARLY CERTAIN that our membership, and our patient population,
> >> would grow much more rapidly. This in turn would create potential
> >> research funding at a higher level, and might also, at some point,
> >> raise our political clout to the point of getting some government
> >> funding. It is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that this allocation of funds
> >> would hold more promise than Paul's.
> 
> > Almost sounds like a Ponzi scheme, or the way cults operate.
> 
> That is a very good reason to _not_ do it that way.
> 
> Collect money to do research, not to collect people to be able to
> collect more people. And I prefer a doing plan over a "asking
> politicians" plan every day.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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> 
> 
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