X-Message-Number: 33331
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:18:48 -0600
Subject: Ethics and Credibility in Cryonics
From: Finance Department <>

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Charles Platt wrongly attempts to trivialize my insistence that Alcor follow
their own bylaws in having a President who is clearly labelled as such.
David Stodolsky follows up on that as a premise to a set of other issues,
most of which I would support, but not because of the mistaken premise.

Ethics and credibility start at home.  Those who think it is important for
cryonics to gain popular acceptance should wake up and understand that John
Q Public is never going to take seriously a non-profit organization that has
a CEO while its bylaws demand a President. (Trivial or symbolic or whatever,
there are, of course, more important issues, such as said organization
claiming to have "members" when its alleged "members" have no rights that
"members" of something normally have, such as to vote for who is on their
executive board, which in the past has occasionally thought it OK to suspend
the funding requirements normally imposed on a "member" if celebrity status
is involved.)

And I'm not picking on Max here - as Charles mentioned, this goes all the
way back to Jerry Lemler.  Why have all of these people who were actually
the President of Alcor, insisted on being called CEO in the first place?  I
have speculated that it might have something to do with Alcor's Board, but
am starting to favor the idea that perhaps "CEO" might look better on a
former Alcor President's resume than "President" would in today's business
world.  The real reason would be interesting to know.

Finally, there is the aura of leadership and responsibility that seems to go
with the job title "President", that is less evident in a CEO who is merely
running the company.  Alcor could sure use some of that.  Perhaps Max will
step up to the plate and answer the 2nd question in my last CryoNet post.

Cheers,

FD

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