X-Message-Number: 19702
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 11:39:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Driven FromThePack <>
Subject: "You can't always get what you want...

...but sometimes, you just might find, you get what
you need."


Charles Platt wrote:

>>
Driven from 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.
>>>

It showed the human face of cryonicists, and it showed
them in a favorable light. That's a Good Thing. And
the other side (Shermer, Storey) showed, I think, the
essential irrationality and emotion upon which their
entire case rests.

>>
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.
>>

That would have been even BETTER, but it did not
happen. It would be nice if the abovementioned article
had run side by side with the USA Today article which
had quotes from 21CM people talking about
vitrification advances (a URL for which I posted here
last week).  But that didn't happen, as far as I know.
But someday, it might happen.

>>>
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.
>>>>


It WAS positive. It was probably the best article I
have ever seen in a major newspaper, with the possible
exception of the NY Times piece.  Not that it couldn't
have been better. Sometimes, Charles, you just gotta
take what you can get.




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