X-Message-Number: 18646 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:54:57 -0500 From: Subject: Platt on Ettinger In #18635, Charles Platt wrote: >Bob Ettinger, whose skepticism regarding vitrification remains >undiminished by countless explanations, reports, and photographs, writes: > >"It may turn out that the best feasible 'vitrification" procedure (or >something approaching vitrification) is not much better than the best >feasible freezing procedure." > >On what evidence is this statement based? I don't know what is more striking about this passage - an absurd request for evidence to support what is clearly only a speculative remark, needing no evidence, or, Mr. Platt, the eternal skeptic about things cryonic, implicitly embracing vitrification, one of many scientifically unproven methods (albeit one that engenders optimism). Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18646