X-Message-Number: 17543 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:53:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Skrecky <> Subject: even more Platt > Message #17531 From: > > >I notice, incidentally, that Bob Ettinger has not denied that the > >unorthodox perfusion [by Albin, using "rosewater" on a CI patient in Europe] > > Yes, I denied it. I wrote that Albin's report was unexceptionable. Another > very small example of Platt's dishonesty. And again, I believe that Platt > himself has completely fabricated the alleged anonymous messages. I also > believe his official or semi-official connection with Alcor is likely to > damage Alcor, and I have reason to believe this opinion is shared by not a > few within Alcor. > I have some of Platt's science fiction in my library. However, after seeing and evaluating the behaviour of a number of people involved in cryonics, I've reluctantly concluded that a number are mentally ill. A possibly relevant study was done on creativity and psychopathology in 291 world-famous men (British Jouyrnal of Psychiatry 165: 22-34 1994). Guess which profession was associated with the highest incidence of psychopathology? No, it wasn't politicians, of which 17.8% suffered from severe illness, including Hitler, Woodrow Wilson and Lincoln. The group that scored the worst was writers. one is reminded of the saying: genius is next to insanity. The breakdown for writers was as follows: Degree of Psychopathology None Mild Marked Severe 2% 10% 42% 46% _____________________________________ Maupassant Chekov Balzac Conrad France Bennett Dostoevsky Hauptmann Brecht Faulkner Melville Camus Gide Orwell Dickens Gogol Dumas(pere) Hemingway Flaubert Hesse Galsworthy Ibsen Gorky Joyce Hardy Kafka Hugo Kipling Huxley (A) Lawrence James (H) Mann (T) Maugham (S) Manzoni Pasternak Proust Pirandello Sartre Shaw Scott Fitzgerald Thackeray Stendhal Trollope Strindberg Turgenev Tolstoy Zola Waugh (E) Wells Wilde Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17543