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Re: "Prometheus Project" Profiteers

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From: Steve Farmer
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:00
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Brian Wowk, CEO of CryoCare, writes:

> I actually wrote you privately to save *you* from public embarrassment
> over your outrageous statements.  You responded that you did not
> have time to reply, being pressed by some urgent deadline.  Yet you
> seem to have plenty of time to continue your public insinuations.

You contacted me back-channel to try to shut me up while your Vice 
President, Charles Platt, was frantically putting up post after post in 
response to my analyses of the Prometheus Project. I at first responded 
to the questions in your e-mail at length and then got hit with more, 
forcing me to call a halt to the exchange. I was indeed under tight 
deadline pressures.

What you call "public insinuations" involved pointing out how CryoCare 
and LEF would end up owning shares - all thanks to donated funds - in 
the for-profit corporation whose formation was one goal of the 
Prometheus Project. I pointed out that even if the Corporation went 
bankrupt, the 10 million dollars the Prometheus Project planned to raise 
from donors would indeed get spent - and that this would directly 
benefit LEF and CryoCare. That goes a long way beyond "insinuation."

You write, on your supposed disinvolvement in cryonics research:

> I do MRI research for a living, funded by
> the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.  I live 1500 miles away
> from the nearest cryonics research facility.  Why don't you take
> your pathetic insinuations to alt.paranoid.fantasy where they
> belong.

Brian, you are listed as "Patient Care Director" and "Chief Executive 
Officer" of CryoCare. CryoCare's homepage describes you as "author on 
numerous technical articles on cryonics" and "team leader for the first 
human cryopreservation performed in Canada." Are you claiming that you 
have abandoned cryonics research - and hence that you and CryoCare 
*wouldn't* benefit from the 10 million dollars in funds sought for the 
Prometheus Project?
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From: Steve Farmer <safarmer@aimnet.com>
Subject: Re: "Prometheus Project" Profiteers
Date: 1996/07/31
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