X-Message-Number: 24326 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 14:40:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Hitt <> Subject: watching quackwatch Doug posted an abstract (http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24318) referring to the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group. David noted that a cofounder (L. Stephen Coles) is listed in quackwatch (http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24320, http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/jlradvisors.html). Quackwatch is a website opearted by physician Stephen Barrett, who is also author of many popular books. I would caution that Stephen B also considers cryonics to be quackery (http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/QA/cryonics.html), although he hasn't investigated it carefully enough to even get the prices right (his reports that it's $28,000 to freeze a head but $120,000 to freeze a body). [He does however include links to CI and Alcor, so that's a point in his favor.] He also disses Linus Pauling (http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.html) for his advocacy of vitamin C, so i guess we're in good company. I don't mean to imply that everything he says is wrong, but some of it certainly is. dan Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=24326