What do scientists commonly say about cryonics ?
Scientists generally will claim that cryonics is a pseudo-science without having investigated the subject, and without even understanding the basic cryobiological principles that would apply. Scientists will commonly claim that because ice has a 9% greater volume than water, that ice forms within cells and expands to burst cells. Any cryobiologist familiar with tissue freezing would know that ice does not form within cells during the cooling process ice forms outside of cells and water is osmotically drawn outside of cells as ice continues to form in the extracelluar space. The initial reason for this process, is that water will supercool without nucleators, and there are few nucleators inside cells, and many more nucleators to initiate crystal growth outside of cells. Scientists who publicly comment about cryonics far too often have not investigated cryonics enough to know that cryonics organizations can avoid ice formation in the brain through the use of vitrification. That cryonics
