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- New Evidence Keeping Brain Sharp and Active Wards off Alzheimer’s
- New Discoveries in Cell Aging
- Eye Trials Give Hope for Stem Cells
- How Stem Cell Implants Help Heal Traumatic Brain Injury
- Victory For Crowdsourced Biomolecule Design
- New Approach to Preventing Fatal Septic Shock
- Alzheimer’s Damage Occurs Early
- Fight Aging!
- Chronosphere
- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 2
- Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation – Part 1
- Cryonics “Castle”
- Doing the Time Warp
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 3
- Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 2
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Tag Archives: Medical Myopia
The pursuit of cryonics as medicine
The biggest obstacle to the acceptance of cryonics is medical myopia; the idea that someone who has been pronounced dead by contemporary medical criteria will still be considered dead by future criteria. Advocates of human cryopreservation strongly argue against this. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alcor, Bioethics, Critical Care Medicine, Cryobiology, Cryonics, Jerry Leaf, Medical Myopia, Medicine, Mike Darwin, Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Vitrification
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The “yuck factor” and cryonics
In sensationalized accounts of cryonics, explicit descriptions of cryonics procedures, and that of neuropreservation in particular, are used to invoke a negative response in the reader. Some bioconservatives have argued that disgust experienced in response to certain ideas and practices … Continue reading
Posted in Cryonics, Society
Tagged Alcor, Bioconservatives, Cryonics, Leon Kass, Medical Myopia, Neuropreservation, Ted Williams, Wisdom of Repugance, Yuck Factor
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