X-Message-Number: 155 From att!osu-cis!compuserve.com!72320.1642 Mon Jan 22 04:31:52 1990 Return-Path: <att!osu-cis!compuserve.com!72320.1642> Received: from att.UUCP by whscad1.att.uucp (4.1/SMI-3.2) id AA06917; Mon, 22 Jan 90 04:31:51 EST Received: by saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (5.61/4.891221) id AA28777; Mon, 22 Jan 90 03:29:40 -0500 Date: 22 Jan 90 02:55:46 EST From: STEVE BRIDGE <> To: KEVIN <> Message-Id: <"900122075545 72320.1642 EHI26-1"@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: CRYONICS #154 from (Alan Lovejoy) >> How DID the "source" know those technical details, anyway??? << As much as we like to malign the National Enquirer (deservedly, for the most part), they generally do their homework on technical details. NE has published many cryonics articles over the years, including occasional straight news reports of suspensions (with sensational headlines, to be sure). Over the past two years NE writers have interviewed people from both ACS and Alcor and have received Alcor information packets. (Well, what the hell, if they're going to write about us, let's make sure they have some basic information correct, instead of making up EVERYTHING. Millions of people read it devotedly, including some whom I know quite well.) They may have interviewed Bob Ettinger or other CI people, too; I don't know. I have found that the average NE reader knows as much or more about cryonics than the average "educated" person. If anything, NE readers are MORE apt to uncritically accept that cryonics will work. Of course, they also believe in ghosts, flying saucers, and Geraldo Rivera, so I'm not sure how much of a gain that is. And let's not assume that we "special" people are the only ones who can handle these "technical details" or who have access to them. They aren't that technical, and the essentials have been in hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles over the past few years, plus many television and radio interviews. Steve Bridge Alcor Midwest Coordinator Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=155