This book is exceptional. This very well may do to Alcor what the Breitbart tapes (the fake pimp and prostitute asking help in bringing to America illegal alien underage sex-slaves) is doing to ACORN.

MArk Plus better cash out his holdings and flee to Brazil.

[www.nydailynews.com]

Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab: book
BY Nathaniel Vinton
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Updated Friday, October 2nd 2009, 10:44 AM

Topping/Reuters
Head of Ted Williams was abused by employees at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., whistleblower says.

'Frozen,' by former Alcor exec Larry Johnson, makes shocking claims about how employees treated Ted Williams' frozen head.

Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims.

In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former exec at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., graphically describes how The Splendid Splinter" was beheaded, his head frozen and repeatedly abused.

The book, out Tuesday from Vanguard Press, tells how Williams' corpse became "Alcorian A-1949" at the facility, where bodies are kept suspended in liquid nitrogen in case future generations learn how to revive them.

Johnson writes that in July 2002, shortly after the Red Sox slugger died at age 83, technicians with no medical certification gleefully photographed and used crude equipment to decapitate the majors' last .400 hitter.

Williams' severed head was then frozen, and even used for batting practice by a technician trying to dislodge it from a tuna fish can.

The chief operating officer of Alcor for eight months before becoming a whistleblower in 2003, Johnson wrote his book while in hiding, fearful for his life.

He told the Daily News then he had received death threats and was moving from safehouse to safehouse. Johnson plans to come out of the shadows Tuesday, with his book and an appearance on ABC's "Nightline."

Johnson said he wired himself with an audio recorder for his last three months at Alcor, stole internal records and took gruesome photographs that are reproduced in the book.

The book describes other atrocities at Alcor's facility in Arizona, including the dismembering of live dogs that were injected with chemicals in experiments, and a situation in which human blood and toxic chemicals were dumped into a parking lot sewer drain.

It also also details suspicious circumstances involving the bodies of two people who are frozen in steel cylinders at Alcor: gay rights activist John Dentinger and Dora Kent, an elderly woman whose son, Saul Dent, gave Alcor lots of money.

Nothing in the book is as gruesome as Johnson's descriptions of what happened to Williams' body after it was sent to Alcor at the direction of the Williams' son John Henry Williams, who died of leukemia in 2004.

In 2003, The News reported that Buzz Hamon, the ballplayer's close friend and former director of the Ted Williams Museum in Hernando, Fla., sneaked into Alcor with the help of a mortician friend.

Hamon said he was "appalled" by the conditions there, where Williams' body and more than 50 others were stored in steel tanks alongside cardboard boxes and junk. Hamon died in 2004, reportedly committing suicide.

Johnson writes that holes were drilled in Williams' severed head for the insertion of microphones, then frozen in liquid nitrogen while Alcor employees recorded the sounds of Williams' brain cracking 16 times as temperatures dropped to -321 degrees Fahrenheit.

Johnson writes that the head was balanced on an empty can of Bumble Bee tuna to keep it from sticking to the bottom of its case.

Johnson describes watching as another Alcor employee removed Williams' head from the freezer with a stick, and tried to dislodge the tuna can by swinging at it with a monkey wrench.

The technician, no .406 hitter like the baseball legend, missed the can with several swings of the wrench and smacked Williams' head directly, spraying "tiny pieces of frozen head" around the room.

Johnson accuses the company of joking morbidly about mailing Williams' thawing remains back to his family if his son didn't pay his outstanding debt to the company.

Reprints of invoices show that Alcor president John Lemler charged $120,000 for the honor of "suspending" Teddy Ballgame's body.

A former paramedic, Johnson first blew the whistle on Alcor in a 2003 Sports Illustrated article about Williams' stored body.

He drew criticism at the time for an aborted attempt to sell photos online purportedly showing Williams' corpse.

Johnson said he hopes his book will help fulfill the wishes Williams expressed in his will - that his body be cremated and the ashes "sprinkled at sea off the coast of Florida, where the water is very deep."

[www.nydailynews.com]

Book: Decapitation of baseball legend Ted Williams drew crowd at Alcor Life Extension Foundation
BY Nathaniel Vinton
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

An unusual number of "cryonicists" showed up to witness and photograph the decapitation of Ted Williams' body, according to a soon-to-be published book blasting the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, which runs the Arizona facility where the baseball hero's remains were allegedly mistreated.

In "Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death," to be released Tuesday, former Alcor chief operating officer Larry Johnson writes that the company's volunteers brought in family members to pose around the dead body of Williams, the Red Sox legend who died in 2002 as the last major leaguer to finish a season with a batting average over .400.

"It was as if Ted Williams had at last lost his lifelong battle with the paparazzi," writes Johnson. "The nonessential bystanders spilled into the room, following the gurney, flashing more pictures and chatting merrily. Ted Williams' mutilation was standing room only."

Johnson backs up that and many other gruesome stories with internal e-mails, documents, and ghastly photographs of severed, frozen heads. As first reported Friday in the Daily News, the book contains the grotesque allegation that an Alcor employee battered the Splendid Splinter's severed head with a monkey wrench to free it from an empty tuna fish can that was frozen to it, serving as a pedestal.

Friday, Alcor's Web site carried a statement that "Alcor denies allegations reported in the press that there was mistreatment or disrespectful treatment of the remains of Ted Williams at Alcor, and will be litigating this and any other false allegations to the maximum extent of the law."

Vanguard Press will publish Johnson's book on Tuesday and Johnson himself will go on the ABC news program "Nightline." The book comes six years after Johnson first blew the whistle on Alcor and went into hiding. He told The News that he feared for his life.

Williams' remains became a subject of a nasty feud between his children and nephews. Williams' daughter, Bobby-Jo Ferrell, clashed in court with her half-siblings John Henry Williams and Claudia Williams.

Ferrell and her husband are barred by a settlement agreement from discussing the disposition of her father's remains. Their attorney, John Heer, said his clients ran out of funding in litigation that was intended to find out what happened to Williams' body. Heer applauded the release of the book for the transparency it could bring.

"I hope that it brings out some more information that we were not able to get when we were handicapped in our litigation," Heer said. "That's all we ever wanted ... the truth. What happened, and why did it happen? We never got complete answers to those questions."

The answers in "Frozen" are certainly graphic. Williams is coded as "Alcorian A-1949," according to the book. Johnson writes that Alcor severed many of its members' heads and placed them in a deep freeze, balancing them on empty cans of BumbleBee tuna fish so that the heads didn't stick to their containers.

Upon moving Williams' head from one freezer to another, an employee of Alcor used a monkey wrench to dislodge the tuna can, according to the book.

"He grabbed a monkey wrench, heaved a mighty swing, missed the tuna can completely, and smacked the head dead center," Johnson writes. After several tries, Johnson said, the employee made contact with the can, which the author writes "took off like a line drive, peppering the walls, skittering across the floor, and sliding under the machinery."

People close to the situation were convinced that John Henry - who pursued numerous money-making schemes that traded on his father's name - was getting some kind of payment for delivering the body to Alcor. But according to "Frozen," John Henry agreed to pay Alcor $120,000 for the opportunity to have his father frozen in case medical technology evolved to a point where dead bodies could be revived.

Johnson writes, however, that John Henry owed Alcor more than $100,000 of the fees, and that Alcor's top officials weren't happy about the debt. Johnson quotes the company's chief financial officer as threatening to trash the baseball hero's body if John Henry didn't pay outstanding debts.

"Pay up or die!" said Michael Riskin, the chief financial officer of the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, according to Johnson's book. "Tell them that if they don't come up with our $111,000, we will be taking A-1949's body out of stasis and thrashing it. They need to understand it's pay up or die. Pay up or die."

[news.bostonherald.com]

Book: Frozen Ted head battered by workers
By Dave Wedge
Friday, October 2, 2009 -

Red Sox great Ted Williams’ head was treated like a “grotesque pinata” by a pair of Arizona cryonic lab workers who bashed the legendary slugger’s frozen skull with a wrench to dislodge it from its pedestal: a Bumble Bee tuna can, an explosive new book alleges.

“Little gray chunks of Ted’s head flew off, peppering the walls, skittering across the floor and sliding under the machinery,” former Alcor chief operating officer Larry Johnson writes in his scandalous expose, “Frozen: My Journey Into the World of Cryonics, Deception and Death.”

Johnson’s tell-all tome, a copy of which was obtained by the Herald, also alleges the Scottsdale, Ariz. company “illegally claimed possession” of the Splendid Splinter’s remains and “botched” his decapitation - a gruesome procedure Johnson claims never should have occurred.

“Ted Williams’s suspension was plagued with extraordinary confusion and incompetence,” Johnson writes.

The book also alleges the company obtained dogs from local shelters and killed them to test chemicals and new technologies, and accuses officials of illegally dumping bodily fluids - including the blood of dead AIDS and cancer patients...

What is with the obvious BS and distortions from the cryonics propagandists?

As detailed in this thread and on the internet, David Pizer has bragged constantly in the media, that he was a multimillionaire.
Obviously to try and DEFLECT away from all of the moneymaking schemes in cryonics.

In ABC news they claim to be worth 10 million [forum.culteducation.com]

QUOTE: "Multimillionaire David Pizer has made arrangements to have his body frozen in liquid nitrogen as soon as possible after he dies... Because Mr. Pizer doesn't wish to return a pauper, he's taken an additional step: He's left his money to himself. - Wall Street Journal, 1/21/06"



So what is up with the distortion, bullshit and obvious lies?
Do they really think people are that stupid?

Mark Plus is now trying to make posts talking about social security, and "rental income", in a very amateur attempt to reframe how cryonics people think about his boss David Pizer.
[www.network54.com]
Why is Mark Plus making unverified claims about the income of his boss, and cryonics leader David Pizer?
Why now?
What new information is coming out about all of these dubious financial schemes and ripoffs related to cryonics?



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The Anticult, please re-post your wonderful links here at cultnews.net (The Rick Ross News Headline site). I would have copied and pasted these great links there but you are the person who first posted them here and it is you honor to send them to to Cultnews.net! As you can see, I have submitted ONE very sketchy (info-wise) link to cultnews and I think your better fleshed out ones are needed.

Our friend Mark Plus just posted a comment and a document in the discussion section on Amazon’s page about some default judgment against Johnson. Since when do default judgments get placed against a whistleblower? There is something flaky about that one. Mr. Ross should refer an attorney to Johnson if he hasn’t already have one.

Go visit:
[www.amazon.com]

We should all login and write positive stuff about the book. The discussion section is just halfway down the page. You can come up with a fake name if you don’t want to use your real name. We should also identify Mr. Plus as an Alcorian who lives with Pizer.

A few cryonics propagandists are really going berserk trying to distort the facts coming out.

Interestingly, some of these guys are EMPLOYED by the people/companies they are trying to defend, go figure.

No question, most of the people involved in the cryonics companies, are "true believers" in cryonics on some level.
But as been shown many times, there is an unholy mix of cranks, kooks, and crooks in the cryonics companies.

But thankfully, a whistleblower has come forward and shown what has gone on behind closed doors.
The public needs to be warned to stay far away from these companies, and especially elderly people who are vulnerable.

Alcor has to be one of the worst companies one could imagine being involved with.
Just recently were trying to get someone dug up from the ground, and were fighting the family, and lost.

Now they are trying to block this book from coming out, a blatant attempt at censorship.
They even brought in one of the family members involved in the Ted Williams travesty, to say that its not in the "public interest" when in fact, what is going on in these companies is clearly in the public interest what is going on behind closed doors.

And the nonsense they are talking about "trade secrets" is beyond ridiculous.
Thank goodness there are people who will stand up and be whistleblowers, and warn the public about what is going on behind closed doors.



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[www.nydailynews.com]

Court rejects Alcor's bid to block release of book detailing mutilation of Ted Williams' head
By Michael O'Keeffe
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Monday, October 5th 2009,

The fight over the frozen head of baseball great Ted Williams continued in a New York courtroom on Monday, when a judge rejected a bid by Alcor Life Extension Foundation to block the release of a book that alleges the Splendid Splinter's remains were mutilated at its Arizona facility.

State Supreme Court Judge James A. Yates said in an interim order issued Monday that Larry Johnson, the author of "Frozen," can discuss and promote his book.

"We are very pleased that Judge Yates defended the company's First Amendment right to publish this important and newsworthy book," said Kent A. Yalowitz, an attorney for Vanguard Press, the book's publisher.

Claudia Williams, the youngest child of the Red Sox legend, attended the hearing but declined comment. In a statement issued through her attorney Eric Abel on Monday evening, said she was "horrified and shocked" by Yates' decision.

"This book serves no public purpose and obliterates the innermost sanctuary of a family's privacy," the statement said. "I believe Larry Johnson violated the confidentiality of my family in the most vile manner possible...Thethe privacy of my family and the resulting horror is of the highest degree and should never have outweighed the public's interest."

Claudia Williams and her now-deceased brother John Henry Williams claimed baseball's last .400 hitter wanted his remains suspended in liquid nitrogen, hoping future scientists will discover a way to revive the dead. They were engaged in an ugly legal feud with their stepsister Bobby-Jo Ferrell, who argued that their father's 1996 will specified that he should be cremated. John Heer, Ferrell's attorney, told the Daily News that Ferrell gave up the fight because she ran out of funding for litigation.

Alcor lawyers Clifford Wolff and Vincent Bauer requested a temporary restraining order to halt the release of the book, arguing that Johnson, the firm's chief operating officer before becoming a whistleblower in 2003, had violated a non-disclosure agreement and a July 7 order issued by a Maricopa County, Ariz., judge in a lawsuit filed by the Scottsdale cryonics facility. Johnson told the Daily News yesterday that he never signed a confidentiality agreement. Heer, who represented Johnson in that case, said Alcor won a default judgement in the case because Johnson was not properly served.

Alcor also said it feared Johnson would share trade secrets and other information from his eight-month tenure as an Alcor executive; Yates barred him from sharing information not already in the book for 24 hours.

"Frozen" is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, but stores across the United States began stocking it last week, Vanguard publisher Roger Cooper said, after the Daily News first reported Johnson's allegations that Alcor technicians with no medical certification crudely removed the Hall of Famer's head from his body. Johnson also described how Alcor employees balanced Williams' head on a tuna can to prevent it from sticking to its case, and how a technician trying to dislodge the can by smacking it with a wrench hit the head directly, spraying frozen tissue and bone across the room.

"The book is already in the market place," Cooper said. "We knew this book would be controversial and provocative and we spent months vetting and fact-checking."

The book also alleges that Alcor employees prematurely euthanized two members; conducted cruel experiments on dogs and dumped toxic chemicals and blood into public sewers.

Johnson said he's received death threats by speaking out against Alcor, but is not opposed to cryonics -- just the sloppy and unscientific procedures he says he witnessed while working for Alcor.

"You have a right to be frozen, just like you have a right to cremation or burial," Johnson told the Daily News. "But people need to know what is going on at Alcor. I feel very strongly that lawmakers should step in and regulate this field. It sickened as a medical professional me that they would do this stuff."