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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:11:44 EDT
Subject: vitrification again

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Platt wrote:

> >(Brian) wrote me privately on Jan. 10, 2003 reiterating the successful
> >transplantation results from -50 degC that were reported at the Alcor
> >conference.
> 
> Thanks Bob for graciously agreeing that your previous statement on this
> topic was not quite correct.
> 

I "agreed" to nothing of the sort. What I said was correct, namely, that NO 
rabbit kidney has been vitrified and recovered viable, and no viable rabbit 
kidney (even without vitrification) has been recovered from a temperature as 
low as that of dry ice. The recovery from - 50 C was an important advance, 
but it was NOT vitrification. And I reminded readers--not to denigrate the 
research, but to inject a note of realism--that a human brain is much larger 
and much more complex than a rabbit kidney, which still has not been 
vitrified (and recovered) after many years of effort.

Platt also writes

> To the person who asked me to post info about vitrification research:
> First, it's not my research and I do not feel it's appropriate for me to
> talk about it. 

A little humor to lighten things up, no doubt.

Platt:

> The information [provided by Alcor] has included the
> brain micrographs which Bob complained were insufficient proof of the
> vitrification solution. Of course I would like to provide more detailed
> research results, but some brain micrographs are better than no brain
> micrographs.
> 

No, some are not better than none, if a false impression is conveyed. The 
impression conveyed is that these results were from Alcor-processed brains, 
which is not the case.

I do agree with Platt on one thing--the recommendation that newcomers, or 
those in doubt, compare the web sites and publications very carefully.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society
www.cryonics.org

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