X-Message-Number: 1345 Date: 22 Nov 92 00:15:33 EST From: Charles Platt <> Subject: CRYONET To: Kevin Brown In response to Ralph Whelan's posting: Mike Darwin is an emotional person (as you well know), and emotional people tend to use hyperbole. I appreciate that many of the things Mike said must seem exaggerated or unfair to people working hard at Alcor. I don't blame Ralph for needing to express his point of view. But it seems to me, something is getting lost here. Behind the hyperbole and the name-calling, it seems to me that Mike makes a couple of interesting points. In particular, it seems to me that he is correct when he states that cryonics, generally, is a business which does not have a built-in self-correcting consumer-driven feedback mechanism; and hence there is a need for a substitute of some kind. I'm surprised no one has addressed this point. (Or has it been addressed in the past, before I got involved with cryonics?) I also think the idea of sponsoring a self-critical newsletter (suggested by Paul Wakfer, echoed in my posting a couple of days ago) is a valid way a) to provide an outlet so that bickering is less likely to turn into hostility, and b) to provide a negative-feedback mechanism that market forces cannot provide in the case of cryonics. Since no one has responded to this concept, either, do I assume there is no interest? And from this, do I assume that people are now pretty much happy with the way that things are going? I'd like to get some sense of how people feel. --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1345