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Subject: Re: Advertising in Journals, TV ads and web sites.
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 04:21:23 US/Eastern

  Jonathan Despres (aka "NanoAging Institute") wrote:

> I don`t understand why CI or Alcor or even Trans Time does not
> advertise on TV, Journals, or web sites with keywords different than
> Cryonics.

  Jonathan, I appreciate your enthusiasm for marketing, but 
I am disturbed by your misrepresentations.  I wish that you 
would try to be more sure of your information before you 
broadcast.  Both CI and Alcor have been engaged in many
media events and do so on an ongoing basis.  Frankly, I 
find journalists to be an irritating distraction from my efforts
at technical improvement -- they are always demanding time. 

> I would love to build that with CI in the future.
> Furthermore 21cm got a research grant of more
> than 900 000$USD and Dr. Pichugin got 0$USD

    Your stated intention to join CI does not make you a 
spokesperson for CI. Even if you join CI, that will not be sufficient
qualification for spokesperson. You are  making major
misrepresentations with the above statement. 

    21CM is not a cryonics organization, it is a cryobiological
research facility. All cryonicists should be delighted by research
money going into cryobiological research -- even when by cryobiologists
who hate cryonics. Their research will be of benefit to us.  Money
given to 21CM is not money taken from CI.   Moreover, in April CI
received about US$45,000 from Immortalist Society donations
for Dr. Pichugin's research. Where did you get the figure of "0$USD" ?

               -- Ben Best, President, Cryonics
Institute

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