First of all, my questions were not for Jordan. I don't believe he is a representative of SA, and since they are in Florida and he is in Oregon, I doubt he has much firsthand knowledge of what goes on, there. Therefore, I don't understand his response in the locked thread, below. Regardless...
1. People do deserve to know the educations, training and experience of people who are offering to provide medical procedures. Alcor doesn't have a problem with publishing bios of their personnel, and CI doesn't have a problem with publishing bios of their personnel and directors. It's my understanding at least one of the SA staff members doesn't even want his name associated with cryonics, and I think that's of concern.
2. Jordan didn't answer this question, but I think it's important to know if a company is paying excessive salaries to people who are not really interested in the work, especially when there is so much work to be done, and so much work to go around, in cryonics. If money is being wasted on unqualified, unproductive people, it could be better spent on legitimate scientific research issues, such as that related to the toxicity of vitrification solutions.
3. Is Jordan referring to "research" like building level detectors that cost tens of thousands of dollars and involve drilling holes in sterile reserviors, when non-invasive FDA-approved level detectors are available for $385? There's been millions of dollars spent on a lot of misguided "research" projects, such as this, at SA. The problem is, the people doing this so-called "research" aren't aware of existing medical equipment, and when they are made aware, they often fight tooth-and-nail to keep their costly projects alive. And, what about that red liquid in the beaker on SA's home page? I believe that was a blatant attempt to deceive the public into believing there is scientific research being conducted at the SA facility, when there has never been any evidence of that.
4. See 3.
5. a. If the employees at SA are the same as when I worked there, they lack the education and experience needed to be competent in performing the tasks of paramedics (or nurses) and perfusionists, which are needed for the services they are said to be offering.
b. I know what their salaries were, when I started, because the manager told me most of them, and I know most of them received raises, while I was there. Some of the salaries that were told to me were later verified, in that one employee told me his salary, and another's check was accidentally included with mine, once.
c. The required skillset for stabilization and washout IS the one I listed. I left out some simple tasks, (like CPR, packing ice around the patient, and other tasks that can be easily taught).
6. Maybe they don't. Maybe Jordan can call them up and ask them.
7. Is Jordan telling us SA can bring a "legally dead" body into their facility, and laymen can perform procedures on it? I'm sure the City of Boynton Beach would be very interested in knowing they plan on doing that.
8. I worked full-time at SA for five months, and consulted with them for an additional five months. Some people were doing little-to-nothing on an almost-daily basis, and getting paid quite handsomely, for it. From my firsthand experience, with SA, there is not enough work to fill up 240 man-hours a week, there, and I'm not the only person who thinks this. If this has changed, since I was there, why don't they let the cryonics community know what they are doing?
9. SA has promised regular news bulletins, many times, but has yet to deliver. I am not the only person who is wondering what SA has accomplished with their seven years and millions of dollars, there are many.
Jordan is correct in that Kent and Faloon can spend their money as they please, but people have a right to know when a company offering medical procedures is providing less than optimal care, at a greatly-inflated price. Also, see 2 and 3.
