X-Message-Number: 19690
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:52:08 +1000
From: Damien Broderick <>
Subject: Bob Park sez cryonics is horseshit

That feisty fellow Bob Park, gadfly of the American Physical Society, is
caustic about cryonics and Charles Platt, inter alia, linking it with UFO
loons:

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http://www.aps.org/WN/

2. BOOK REVIEW: "THE HUNT FOR ZERO POINT," by NICK COOK. If this book is
about controlling gravity, what's with the "zero point"? The confusion is
natural; both lie within the province of fringe scientists who haven't a
clue of where the real world stops and the fantasy world of Atlantis and
UFO's begins. Cook is not a scientist of any sort; in his world, these guys
are the insiders. Don't look for them in the pages of Phys Rev; they're not
a bunch of pointy-headed academics. They are part of the black world of
really important top secret stuff like -- well, electrogravitics. So who
exactly fed Nick Cook this enormous pile of horse manure? If you're a
regular reader of WN, you've already met them all. 

 3. FRINGE: WHERE EVERYTHING IS SECRET, AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE. When
Cook set out on his search for "the biggest secret since the atom bomb," he
went straight to the Integrity Research Institute, in Washington, DC, where
you can buy books and videos with titles like "Holistic Physics and
Consciousness" (WN 5 Mar 99). IRI is really Tom Valone, a former patent
examiner who lost his job in the fallout from the Conference on Free Energy
(WN 21 May 99). He had recruited Paul LaViolette, who claims the B-2 uses
anti-gravity, reverse engineered from a crashed flying saucer. He was also
fired (WN 18 Aug 00). They sent Cook to the Institute for Advanced Study.
Not the one in Princeton; the one in Austin, TX. It consists of Harold
Puthoff, who wants to extract energy from the zero point of the vacuum. He
used to run the CIA's "remote viewing" program, which was inspired by "Mind
Reach," a book he wrote with Russell Targ (WN 11 Mar 94). Finally, Cook
sought advice from Charles Platt, founder of CryoCare, a company that keeps
human heads bobbing in liquid nitrogen until scientists can figure out how
to restart them (WN 21 Jul 00). 

 Bob Park can be reached via email at  

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Damien Broderick

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