X-Message-Number: 1345
Date: 22 Nov 92 00:15:33 EST
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: CRYONET

To: Kevin Brown

In response to Ralph Whelan's posting: Mike Darwin is an emotional person
(as you well know), and emotional people tend to use hyperbole. I
appreciate that many of the things Mike said must seem exaggerated or
unfair to people working hard at Alcor. I don't blame Ralph for needing
to express his point of view. But it seems to me, something is getting
lost here. Behind the hyperbole and the name-calling, it seems to me that
Mike makes a couple of interesting points. In particular, it seems to me
that he is correct when he states that cryonics, generally, is a business
which does not have a built-in self-correcting consumer-driven feedback
mechanism; and hence there is a need for a substitute of some kind. I'm
surprised no one has addressed this point. (Or has it been addressed in
the past, before I got involved with cryonics?) I also think the idea of
sponsoring a self-critical newsletter (suggested by Paul Wakfer, echoed
in my posting a couple of days ago) is a valid way a) to provide an
outlet so that bickering is less likely to turn into hostility, and b)
to provide a negative-feedback mechanism that market forces cannot provide
in the case of cryonics. Since no one has responded to this concept, 
either, do I assume there is no interest? And from this, do I assume that
people are now pretty much happy with the way that things are going?
I'd like to get some sense of how people feel.
--Charles Platt


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