# Ongoing Snark Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-snark-thread/808668 "2018-02-12T03:17:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 247
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-snark-thread/808668/247 "2018-05-20T05:10:17Z")
SamuelA returns to his old ways with another rant on cryogenics. > [@Death or dementia?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-or-dementia/814486/6): > > You know that a cryogenic freeze has some non zero probability of success. Sure the odds are dismal today as our science and understanding of the mind is so poor - but it is not zero. If the physical structure survives, it is probably possible to eventually tear down their frozen brain and recover their stored memory and personality, and experiments conducted by MIT have attempted to do this recently with small sections of rat cortex. (and it sort of works, well enough to show the process is feasible although of course the emulated brain slice doesn’t exactly match the original because of flawed current models) > > Therefore freezing patients when they first develop dementia is the rational treatment to try. Convince me otherwise. > > I think the reason this is not commonly done now is because of the influence of irrational religion. If you reject religion and model expected outcomes purely by the known physical world, this is the correct action to attempt. No, nut job. The reason it isn’t done is because those people are still alive, and have not asked anyone to cut their heads off. Not to mention that cryogenics doesn’t work. I sincerely hope he never becomes a doctor and goes anywhere near patients. He sounds like a horror movie in the making. I picture him with a basement full of heads in freezers. _It will work this time Igor. I’ll fix that flawed model with this slice. What’s that? A human brain is more complicated than a rat and we still can’t do that? Nonsense. I’m sure their families will be over-joyed that I cut off Grandpa’s head without asking for my important experiments!_ --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ongoing-snark-thread/808668)._