X-Message-Number: 15336
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 13:34:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: The Incorrigible Opportunist

> Message #15333
> From: 
> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 11:49:50 EST
> Subject: Fahy

> was a teen ager. We raised him from a pup, in a manner of speaking.

Thanks, Bob, for affirming the true extent of your presumptuous
condescension. I am suitably humiliated to find reality far exceeding any
satire that I could possibly write.

As you well know, the deposition from GF was solicited during a state of
extreme emergency, when Alcor was attempting to save not just Dora Kent
but all of its patients, and there was a real fear that some innocent
people would be charged with assisting suicide. Quoting this deposition on
your web site, as if it is an endorsement of your current methods, is
unprincipled and opportunistic, and your comments regarding the
exceptional work of a fine scientist have been deplorable. Still, you have
made your motives abundantly clear: Your primary concern is to puff up the
public image of the organization that you founded. If someone's reputation
is damaged in the process, or history is rewritten, or facts are
distorted--apparently, this is of little consequence.

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This concludes my visit to CryoNet. The futility index is much the same as
a year or so ago, and I prefer to use my time, now, to help create an
online reference resource that will provide authoritative information
about recent research. If in addition I try to follow through with an
independent news source about cryonics, it will be announced here.

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