X-Message-Number: 1044 Date: 21 Jul 92 21:48:49 EDT From: "Allen J. Lopp" <> Subject: CRYONICS - Why Neurologists Maybe Voted NO on "sci.cryonics" I recently caught up on a month's backlog of e-mail, so pls forgive that this comment may not seem very prompt. Tim Freeman pointed out that a large number of NO votes on sci.cryonics came from the neurology department at the Albert Einstein University School of Medicine. Tim then opined that this must be because it is obvious to neurologists that cryonics cannot work, and requested that they explain this so that it is obvious to the rest of us. But perhaps exactly the opposite is true. Perhaps the neurologists see that they might end up in the same political boat as the fetal tissue researchers are with the pro-lifers. I can imagine that after nine years of hard work to earn a doctorate degree in medicine or neurology, I would not like the idea to catch on that as I pursue a career researching the human neural system I occasionally "murder" a human brain by dissecting it. As inflammatory as this suggestion might be, one should be reminded that neurologists are no worse than the average coroner. Well, it's just a thought... Allen J. Lopp Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1044