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The big cryonics story of the week, about the Thai toddler Matheryn Naovaratpong:
The Girl Who Would Live Forever
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-girl-who-would-live-forever
Two-year-old cryogenically frozen by parents
http://www.cnet.com/news/two-year-old-cryogenically-frozen-by-parents/
The girl who could come back from the dead: Toddler who died from a brain tumour is FROZEN by parents who hope she can one day be revived by medical advances
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3043272/The-girl-come-dead-Toddler-died-brain-tumour-FROZEN-parents-hope-one-day-revived-medical-advances.html#ixzz3XoNKDW00
PZ Myers weighs in. I guess he got bored with inflicting damage on communion wafers and accusing Michael Shermer of sexually assaulting women, and now he wants to pick on cryonicists:
How to live forever
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/04/16/how-to-live-forever/
Well, hats off to /u/DataPacRat for fighting the good fight in that comment section. I suspect most of the thread is people who just came in to post their little dig at the weird meat-popsicle cultists and then move on, so I'm not sure if he's achieving much, but if nothing else he's stopped me from feeling I need to go in there and join the fray to say what he ended up saying, except less well.