X-Message-Number: 12885
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 05:57:20 -0500
From: Saul Kent <>
Subject: Clarity

        George Smith wrote in response 
to my question:

>         > When you HAVE proven something,
>         > it is a fact.
>         > All else is opinion.
>         > Cryonics can work.
>         > No one has PROVEN otherwise.
>         > Those are the FACTS.
>
>         What is the proof that cryonics can work?
>
> ---Saul Kent

        >>> I hope I have answered your 
question.  I believe it to be the most important 
question in regard to this entire issue. Thank 
you for pointing out my apparent error.  I hope 
this posting helps clarify what I was trying to 
convey with too few words.

        I was pointing out your "apparent
error" in stating that "cryonics can work" is a
"fact" because I hoped you would recognize 
that, in fact, you made an error rather than an
"apparent error". Other than that error, how-
ever, I believe your previous "too few words" 
were much better in explaining your point 
than the many words with which you 
answered my question.

        Your point, that any statement that
cryonics cannot work is an opinion rather than
a fact is true. It is also true, however, that this
truth alone has not converted many people
to cryonics in the past 35 years.  It worked for
me in 1964, but it hasn't worked for many others.
For most people, you have to present evidence
that cryonics can work.  I'm looking forward to
the time, which I believe will be in the near
future, when the evidence we can present 
for cryonics is quite a bit better than it is now.

---Saul Kent 

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