X-Message-Number: 19701
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 12:19:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: "best" cryonics news story

Driven fromt the Pack writes: "This may be the best cryonics news stories
I have ever seen; it leans to the human interest side, and also pushes the
techno-geek aspect of cryonics."

Certainly, this is a great cryonics news story if you want to promote
cryonics as a subculture for wacky techno-optimists who are pinning their
hopes entirely on a technology that doesn't exist.

In other words, this is no different from the kind of news story that
could have been written 30 years ago. There is no mention of the advances
that have been made in the past 4 years. No mention of vitrification, to
rebut the inevitable scoffing cryobiologist.

The cryonics advocates who were interviewed for this story did the field a
great disservice by apparently failing to mention that the "future faith"
element of cryonics is under attack from bone-fide biological research. I
am simply amazed that anyone could regard this as positive news coverage.

--CP

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