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. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19702