X-Message-Number: 19711
Date: Wed,  7 Aug 2002 07:58:09 -0700
Subject: Re: "best" cryonics news story
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From:  (Tim Freeman)

From: Charles Platt <>
>The cryonics advocates who were interviewed for this story did the field a
>great disservice by apparently failing to mention that the "future faith"
>element of cryonics is under attack from bone-fide biological research.

You don't know what was mentioned; you only know what was published.

I told Ellen Lee that a meaningful dialogue with the cryobiologists
would be very interesting.  It would have to be a dialogue because
they usually start with obviously false beliefs, such as the
assumption that all cryonics patients are still being frozen.  Since
they are being vitrified, concerns about freezing damage are irrelevant.

Your post was to a public forum, so I don't think I'm breaking any
confidence by cc'ing it to Ellen Lee.

It was pretty clear to me that her goal was to produce a human
interest story rather than a debate, so I can see her incentive for
excluding responses to what the cryobiologist said.  It's amazing to
me that so few people care about getting clarity on these
life-and-death issues.

-- 
Tim Freeman       

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