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I'm not sure they would be allowed to reach a pro-cryonics position. The acknowledgments say "Finally, we would like to thank our opponent group for their pertinent and helpful comments on our work."
EDIT: OK, apparently not.
They clarify this in their reply.
It's possible that the examiners of the report are termed 'opponents'.
You think this may have been a "two groups discuss the two sides of an issue" assignment? I searched "cryonics" at the site with the full paper and found 2 other results, but they're both in Dutch. Google translates one of the titles as "People technosphere - Transhumanism and naturalness" and is about the ethical issues of uploading, and the other is about freezing stem cells.
Their English is pretty good, so I would be surprised if this were some sort of translation error where the line should be more like 'we thank our peer reviewers/copyeditors/reference-checkers/etc.' Taking it at face value, that's what it sounds like - some sort of adversarial process, likely with the others writing in favor (although it's possible the opponent group was only assigned criticism and maybe made up by criticizing multiple paper-groups?).
Someone really should ask, since apparently some of them are on Facebook.