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3 weeks, and still no SA case report; somebody call the police.
June 27 2007 at 11:38 PM Steve Harris (Login StevenHarris)
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Response to Some Possible Reasons SA Isnt Doing a Report (Yet)
Dear Finance Department:

I'm sure you'd like to see the SA case report, and it will posted in due time on the SA website. However, I'm afraid you have unrealistic ideas about how fast to expect publication of an edited and detailed report which analyzes and synthesizes data from many points of view, in a cryonics standby and cool-down.

For example, a number of Alcor case reports are still missing in action, all of them after more than a year. In fact, I believe that the present official policy is that Alcor doesn't even publish case reports anymore in the old 1990's style, but rather simply "case summaries." It's not an easy process to write such things.

As to your question of whether Saul Kent wants case reports on cryonics standby cases done, if you have to ask, you don't know the man. For a time, several years ago during the Waynick Alcor administration, Kent actually offered cash bounties out of his own pocket for full Alcor case reports to be done and published. This resulted in some getting done, but others are still hanging fire even now, and quite a lot of this bounty money still remains collectable but uncollected-- a matter of some thousands of dollars. If you want to know the details of why not, you can ask Alcor; that story is not mine to tell. However, suffice to say that SA case reports will certainly be done, warts and all. Everyone at SA understands how critical such things are, for quality control reasons. That includes, perhaps more than anyone else, Saul Kent.

Steve Harris


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Thank Mr. Kent for that! - Finance Department on Jun 28, 2007, 12:41 AM