X-Message-Number: 12211 Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 13:41:16 +1000 From: Simon Carter <> Subject: Shame LA Times, Shame! References: <> I noticed the following in the Sunday, July 25, 1999 LA Times. Perhaps a local cryonicist/skeptic could provide a counter argument. http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/SCIENCE/SCIENCE/t000000106.html > Southern California is arguably the most powerful incubator of > both rational and irrational thought on the planet. What do > those on the scientific side see as the sappiest stuff to touch down of > late? > > MATT CHERRY, executive director of Los Angeles' Center for > Inquiry-West (a branch of the Committee for the Scientific > Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal), polled readers of that > organization's Skeptical Inquirer magazine. He then excluded > medical pseudo-science and paranormal religious claims to come up > with this Top 10 list: At 5: > Cryonics -- When the Pharaohs preserved corpses for life > after death, they called it religion. Now the people who freeze > bodies for future resurrection call the process, started in > Bakersfield, "the science of cryonics." Sandwiched between 4. Hollywood -- The entertainment industry is the engine of popular belief in the paranormal. and 6. Shirley MacLaine. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Simon Carter -- Software Verification Research Centre -- The University of Queensland, QLD 4072 -- AUSTRALIA -- -- Tel: +61 7 3365 1647 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=12211