X-Message-Number: 19711 Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 07:58:09 -0700 Subject: Re: "best" cryonics news story References: <> From: (Tim Freeman) From: Charles Platt <> >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. You don't know what was mentioned; you only know what was published. I told Ellen Lee that a meaningful dialogue with the cryobiologists would be very interesting. It would have to be a dialogue because they usually start with obviously false beliefs, such as the assumption that all cryonics patients are still being frozen. Since they are being vitrified, concerns about freezing damage are irrelevant. Your post was to a public forum, so I don't think I'm breaking any confidence by cc'ing it to Ellen Lee. It was pretty clear to me that her goal was to produce a human interest story rather than a debate, so I can see her incentive for excluding responses to what the cryobiologist said. It's amazing to me that so few people care about getting clarity on these life-and-death issues. -- Tim Freeman GPG public key fingerprint ECDF 46F8 3B80 BB9E 575D 7180 76DF FE00 34B1 5C78 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19711