Are cryonics organizations fraudulently selling an unproven technology ?
It would be fraudulent to guarantee the ability to reanimate cryopreserved humans, but no cryonics organization does this. Cryonics organizations are clear that reanimation is not possible today and that there is no guarantee that future technology will be able to reanimate cryonics patients. Those seeking cryopreservation must sign contracts which acknowledge these facts. Cryonics organizations only promise to preserve brain (and body) by the best means possible under the circumstances and to make best efforts at long-term storage of cryonics patients in the face of social, political and economic risks. Reanimation technology is unproven, but there are good scientific plausibility arguments for believing that such technology will be available in the future. If there were not good scientific plausibility arguments for thermonuclear fusion, tissue regeneration from stem cells or the possibility of human habitation on Mars there would be no justification for spending vast amounts of mone
