X-Message-Number: 2430
Subject: CRYONICS Mike Darwin Inquisition
From:  (Charles Platt)
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 93 09:26:30 EDT

I am posting this in the public area of CryoNet, because it 
concerns an issue which has already been raised publicly in 
Cryonics magazine. 

I understand that on this past weekend there was a meeting at 
which Mike Darwin faced Fred and Linda Chamberlain, Alcor 
directors, and other interested parties, in order to address 
complaints from the Chamberlains about his past performance 
doing suspensions for Alcor. I am told that Mike was able to 
refute the various complaints levelled against him. However, 
my sources may be biased, and I would value a general report 
from other people who were at the meeting, particularly 
Michael Riskin, the Alcor Ombudsman, who has gone out of his 
way in the past to maintain a position of neutral 
objectivity. 

I realize that some aspects of the meeting were confidential 
since they dealt with details of patient case histories, but 
surely it should be possible to give us a general evaluation. 
I have a personal interest because, although I am not an 
Alcor member, I am expecting to sign up in due course with 
another organization that will be using Mike Darwin's 
suspension services. 

Since the Chamberlains' allegations were widely published and 
could have had the effect of damaging Mike's professional 
reputation, may we now expect a full retraction from the 
Chamberlains? This would be good manners, to say the least, 
and it might also help to extricate them from any legal 
jeopardy that they incurred by making their baseless 
allegations in a public forum. 

--Charles Platt 

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