Re: CRYO: Cryonics in Salon

From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2001 - 05:44:25 MST


On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Mark Plus wrote:

> And why does Alcor feel the need to shake down journalists for $2,000 just
> for a tour of the Scottsdale lab?

My understanding is that this is only done for foreign journalists, for
whom this is more expected behaviour. Additionally, foreign journalists
do little publicity useful to Alcor (compared to US journalists) and take
up much more time and cause much more disruption of the facility than you
might think.

steve



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