Bamboo antennas, homeopathy, and medical snake oil have large priors against them, those priors being that the laws of physics directly contradict thier functioning. The laws of physics must be changed to allow them to work.
That’s true for bamboo antennas and homeopathy, although it wasn’t true w.r.t. the epistemic beliefs of those who originally proposed them. It isn’t however true for snake oil. There is nothing in the laws of physics that allows us to claim that snake oil doesn’t have curative properties, or that a weird stem cell concoction doesn’t cure neurodegenerative diseases, and so on. Nevertheless, we don’t believe that these things work because the burden of evidence is on the proponents, and the proponents failed to substantiate their claim of effectiveness.
Cryonics is exactly in the same class as these unproven medical procedures.
Cryonics on the other hand, is not crippled by this. The laws of physics as we know them allow it and would have to be modified to prevent cryonics from working.
The claim that the law of physics as we know would have to be changed to prevent cryonics from working is factually false. I challenge you to substantiate it.
That’s true for bamboo antennas and homeopathy, although it wasn’t true w.r.t. the epistemic beliefs of those who originally proposed them.
It isn’t however true for snake oil. There is nothing in the laws of physics that allows us to claim that snake oil doesn’t have curative properties, or that a weird stem cell concoction doesn’t cure neurodegenerative diseases, and so on.
Nevertheless, we don’t believe that these things work because the burden of evidence is on the proponents, and the proponents failed to substantiate their claim of effectiveness.
Cryonics is exactly in the same class as these unproven medical procedures.
The claim that the law of physics as we know would have to be changed to prevent cryonics from working is factually false. I challenge you to substantiate it.