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Anonymous:
(post came out overly formal-- didn't mean for that :/ that's what I get for using English for nothing else but papers and essays all these years...)

But, yeah, this just confirms my opinion of ALCOR as crooks-- when someone has anything real to offer in the field of cryonics and/or enhancement, let me know.

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Yael (Eshet Khever ha'Kinii)" ---ALCOR are promoting cryonic preservation of body, head, and brain matter for future re-animation/ressurection. That's in line w/ current transhumanist thought about creating a post-human being using various new/emerging technologies. It can be said that such a resurrected person will be considred a post-human. Movement-wise, ALCOR has connection to the World Transhumanist Association (they often advertise in H+), and if I'm not mistake, Mr. Bostrom himself has given talks in several of their confreneces.
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--- Quote from: "Yael (Eshet Khever ha'Kinii)" ---(post came out overly formal-- didn't mean for that :/ that's what I get for using English for nothing else but papers and essays all these years...)

But, yeah, this just confirms my opinion of ALCOR as crooks-- when someone has anything real to offer in the field of cryonics and/or enhancement, let me know.
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ALCOR reminds me a bit of Clonaid and the Raëlian Cult, albeit with more biotech tools and a less focused leadership...  :D



(I'm sure I've insulted someone by saying that!)

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Ursus" --- ALCOR reminds me a bit of Clonaid and the Raëlian Cult, albeit with more biotech tools and a less focused leadership...  :D
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Yup, sounds like it.
Besides, even if cryonics-based ressurection will be possible at some point (which I strongly doubt, for the same reasons I doubt the mind-uploading Singularitarians), I wouldn't trust them with it.


--- Quote ---(I'm sure I've insulted someone by saying that!)
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Yeah, well, that's not necessarily a bad thing, there is way too much political correctness and too little reality in today's society.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Yael (Eshet Khever ha'Kinii)" ---
--- Quote from: "Ursus" --- ALCOR reminds me a bit of Clonaid and the Raëlian Cult, albeit with more biotech tools and a less focused leadership...  :D
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Yup, sounds like it.
Besides, even if cryonics-based ressurection will be possible at some point (which I strongly doubt, for the same reasons I doubt the mind-uploading Singularitarians), I wouldn't trust them with it.

--- Quote ---(I'm sure I've insulted someone by saying that!)
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Yeah, well, that's not necessarily a bad thing, there is way too much political correctness and too little reality in today's society.
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yes an the politically correct Antony Spezia and Covenant Health would hate to have even a remote association with Lem and ALCOR

Ursus:

--- Quote from: "Spraynerd" ---The judges notes on Lemler in Seals v. England/Corsair Upholstery Mfg., 984 S.W.2d 912 (Tenn. 1999).

Dr. Lemler is a board certified psychiatrist who has no inpatient psychiatric practice. He formerly practiced in Alabama, but left that state under something of a cloud when his Group was charged with bilking a federal program. He settled the government's claim against him and surfaced at Peninsula Hospital in Blount County, Tennessee. He left the practice there in June 1995 and went into business for himself by sending 140 marketing letters to lawyers announcing that his services as an expert psychiatrist were available. Plaintiff's counsel soon hired him, and uses his services to an unusual extent. Dr. Lemler sees and psychiatrically evaluates between 48 and 72 claimants represented by Plaintiff's counsel per year. He charges substantial fees for his services as a forensic psychiatrist. He does not practice psychiatry, and maintains no office, other than as we deduce, a small office in Harrogate where he ostensibly practices family medicine. His evaluations are generally conducted in lawyers' offices.
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Apparently Dr. Jerry Burl Lemler also used to be chief of medical staff at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute in Knoxville, Tennessee, at least for a while...

In a case heard in Tennessee in the early 1990's, namely State of Tennessee v. James Perry Hyde, Lemler managed to come up with the all-encompassing diagnosis of "post-traumatic disorder" for 11-year old SAH, who had been raped with an enema device filled with cough syrup, a baton-like pen, and possibly also a gun by her father on a number of occasions in August and/or September of 1992.

From the Factual Background section of James Perry Hyde's unsuccessful appeal, heard in 1994 and filed in 1996:

...Finally, Dr. Lynn testified that SAH had made false accusations of sexual assault against Dr. Lynn and various staff members at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute. Dr. Jerry Burl Lemler, a psychiatrist and chief of medical staff at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, testified that SAH was suffering "post-traumatic disorder."[/list]

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