Everybody Freeze – The extropians want your body

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14 points·pron··5 comments

Made through about two paragraphs. The writing was so biased I couldn't make it further.

I agree. There's a lot to be criticized in the cryogenic movement. They're selling something that they just don't have (eternal life) to people who are desperate.

But this article was an obvious smear piece that didn't do the subject justice.

The Baffler is far from real journalism—more like overpaid writers attempting to exercise literary contempt over topics they don't understand.

Actually, they are underpaid writers who -- if this piece is any indication -- at least get it more right than the NYT[1]. If you're aware of a more thoroughly researched account of Alcor's history that is less negative than this one, I'd love to read it.

[1]: The NYT reported "the procedure itself went mostly as planned" when in reality -- quoting from Alcor's own account of the events -- the woman's head fell out of its "enclosure", there was general "confusion and disagreement" on how to perform the procedure, and then "cryoprotective perfusion was not generally successful".

A new genre of explicit nerd bashing seems to have emerged from the reactionary left. This piece follows the standard formula. It's quite pretentious and shallow.

The article came across as mocking a dead woman. I've never viewed Alcor as anything more than an eccentric form of burial, but what's wrong with that? If I wanted to be mummified precisely like an ancient Egyptian, that's my choice. If I want my head frozen, that's my choice.

I've read good things on The Baffler, but this was grating. I call it's school the "reactionary left" because works in the genre never propose solutions. They only whine and moan.

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