It seems that you are trying to argue that there is some sort of conspiracy by cryobiologists to prevent cryonicists from publishing in high-impact journals.
If I understand correctly, the Society for Cryobiology officially bans its members from practicing or endorsing cyonics (defined as the cryopreservation of human corpses for the purpose of reanimation), but it has no position about preventing people associated with cryonics organization from publishing research.
If you want to claim that cryobiologists are covertly suppressing research by cryonicists by lobbying journal editors or abusing the peer review system, I would say that this is a very serious accusation of professional misconduct and you should not make it unless you can back it with evidence.
some sort of conspiracy by cryobiologists to prevent cryonicists from publishing...the Society for Cryobiology officially bans its members from practicing or endorsing cyonics
Yes. Some sort of conspiracy. I don't know why anyone would think that. What an odd thing to think.
it has no position about preventing people associated with cryonics organization from publishing research.
'Comrades, good news. You are free to research and publish anything you want about capitalist economics, as long as it's negative and does not endorse or practice it. Let 100 flowers bloom!'
I would say that this is a very serious accusation of professional misconduct and you should not make it unless you can back it with evidence.
Are you arguing that despite bitter hatred and an astonishing policy outright banning cryonics, this has zero influence on the notoriously politicized, inconsistent, random, risk-averse scientific publication process which has been amply documented to settle for lowest common denominators, punish ambitious work, express peer reviewers' personal prejudices in discriminating against minorities, conservatives, etc? You think that somehow cryonics papers will be an exception to all this, will get a free pass and be fairly and impartially evaluated by its sworn enemies?
It is about using cryonics-oriented techniques to verify a claim of extreme interest to cryonicists, and of minimal interest to cryobiology in general (which does not care much about whole organisms or their neurological integrity, but about narrower more applied topics like gametes or organ transplants where neurons either don't exist or are largely irrelevant).
I suppose that I were a neurobiologist I would find the topic of the paper very interesting. I mean, it's about cryopreservation of plastic nervous structures!
If the paper was good science and it turned out that it had been unfairly rejected by major journals I would be quite disappointed. If it turned out that there was a systemic suppression of this kind of research I would be calling it a scandal.
So where is the evidence of all this wrong doing? Where are all these unfairly rejected papers?
The problems with peer review are well known. There are countless studies in Google Scholar demonstrating problems in the peer review process from gender bias to country bias to publication bias to novel findings etc etc, on top of all the ones in the Wikipedia link I gave you; your blind veneration of peer review is not based on the empirical reality. Further, the war of cryobiologists on cryonics is well known and well documented, and there is zero reason to believe that cryonics-related papers would be given a fair reception. You keep making ridiculous claims like pointing out problems with peer review is the sign of a crackpot or arguing that a professional society banning a topic will somehow have no effect on research and does not indicate any biases in reviewing research on the topic, demanding proof of impossible things, and then completely ignoring when I point to available supporting evidence. This is not a debate, this is you digging your head into the sand and going 'La la la reviewers are totally fair, there is no opposition to cryonics, peer review is the best thing since sliced bread, and you can't force me to believe otherwise!' Indeed, I can't.
I think you are strawmanning my position.
I'm not claiming that the peer review system is totally fair. I can even concede that it may be biased against cryonics, to the effect that a cryonics-related paper has to pass a higher bar to be accepted.
But your claim is much stronger than that. Your claim is that the peer-review system is so much biased that it has effectively managed to systematically keep scientifically sound cryonics-related research off all major journals.
This is an extraordinary claim. Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence.
This is also a claim that it would be easy to verify if it was true: just produce the unfairly rejected papers with the reviewers comments. This is the type of claims for which absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/rej.2014.1636
This is a paper published in 2014 by Natasha Vita-More and Daniel Barranco, both associated with the Alcor Research Center (ARC).
The abstract: