X-Message-Number: 3609
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 19:52:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: CRYONICS:"Censorship" again


Rich Schroeppel writes:

> The day after Platt
> chases C & B out, we lose Skrecky (and me - my skin isn't so thick either.)

Hey, Rich, what's gotten into you? DIdn't you read my post here a couple
days ago, correcting your previous misrepresentation of what I'd said?
Once again: I never said anyone should be "chased out" and it is wrong for
you to imply this. I suggested that each of us has an area of expertise,
and if we insist on talking about things which we don't understand, we
make fools of ourselves and waste time. I also said that I hoped common
sense would guide people to use their time more productively if they're
serious about cryonics. 
 
> I'm not talking about their right to speak, I'm talking about your (and my)
> right to hear.  Let me put it differently:  You are offered the option of
> only reading material that Charles Platt feels should be posted.  Would you
> accept this?

What on earth are you talking about? You're responding to a post that
never existed. What makes me a bit irritable is that you're saying that I
posted it. Please quote me accurately if you're going to quote me at all.

As for Douglas Skrecky (whom you imply was somehow victimized by Mike
Darwin), he's still free to post here too, if he wants. And Mike Darwin is
still free to demonstrate that Skrecky's ideas are half-baked. And Steve
Harris is still free to speculate about neutrinos (!). And I am still free
to suggest that this totally speculative stuff is a distraction from 
pressing issues which I would have thought would be the #1 concern of all 
serious cryonicists. Of course, I may be wrong, and if so, you are free 
to tell everyone. I don't think, however, that you should feel free to 
misquote or misrepresent me. Okay?

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