Are there public statements by eminent scientists who recognize that cryonics has scientific merit?
Yes. See Scientists’ Open Letter on Cryonics in which 60 eminent scientists affirm that “cryonics is a legitimate science-based endeavor”. Note that cryonics is science-based, but cannot correctly be called current science. Cryonics is based on expectations of the repair capabilities of future science. Although the projection is less, possible human habitation of Mars is similarly a science-based concept based on projections of the capabilities of current science. Q: But isn’t freezing a deceased person pointless? Once you’re dead, you’re dead. And even if you could revive them, they’d just have the same fatal disease they had before. A: If by ‘dead’ you mean ‘clinically dead’, without heartbeat or breathing, then ‘raising the dead’ is done every day, thousands of times every year, in hospitals all over the world. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR — developed in the 1950’s — quite commonly restores life to people who were once considered (wrongly) to be absolutely and irretrievably
