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Huh, I had completely forgotten that P&T did an anti-cryonics bit. Disappointing. On the other hand, their basic point ("Why not spend that $125,000 on hookers?") reminded me of Reedspacer's Lower Bound.
$80K USD for Alcor neuro, $9K for some Russian organization, and $50K for Trans Time, which has a rather shoddy website. Other organizations only seem to offer full-body cryopreservation. What institution charges 30,000?
Cryonics Institute. (Edit: they don't offer neuro, but I'm guessing they're the source of the $30K figure.)
I was just quoting P&T's number. That show aired in 2004 so I assumed the price would be lower today (not to mention the neuro discount).
Of course, that's why it's a lower bound :)
Why would you think that?
There's still hope for Penn and Teller; their last episode is going to be a bunch of miscellaneous retractions for the times they've been wrong on their show. Which is a good sign in itself.
Bullshit! has apparently finished up. Did they do any interesting retractions?
From Wikipedia:
Oh. What a pity. I guess the network didn't think it was worth spending money on.