As the Fall Classic approaches, let us turn our attention to the national pastime: "Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams – even using it for a bizarre batting practice, a new tell-all book claims." Sounds pretty nasty, but the News is embellishing a bit here. Former Alcor Life Extension Foundation executive, Larry Johnson, who wrote the book, isn't actually saying that employees played baseball with the head. It was a bit different.

One of the knocks on the mainstream media is its function as "gatekeeper," deciding what news the public should know and which details should be withheld. Last week the Times-the greatest "gatekeeper" of all, unless we're talking about national security, in which case everything's fair game-inadvertently let slip an important secret about cryogenics which threatened to change public awareness of what lies beyond the death of the body; today they issue an important corrective.