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

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