X-Message-Number: 24492
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 05:27:23 -0500
From: Randy Smith <>
Subject: Re: CSM article and "impossibility of resurrection" quote
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Kennita Watson <> wrote:

>On Monday, Aug 9, 2004, at 02:00 US/Pacific, CryoNet wrote:
>
>  
>
>>The *Christian Science Monitor*, Aug. 5, has an interesting article on
>>cryonics & life extension:
>>
>>http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0805/p14s02-stct.html?s=ent
>>
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>>
>Most people have heard of "damning with faint praise".
>I call the last sentence of this article "praising
>with faint damnation":
>
>     Many scientists - such as plant cryo-preservation
>     expert Paul Lynch of England's University of Derby -
>     call human resurrection an impossibility.
>
>Surely a truly dedicated detractor could have found
>someone other than a plant expert to denounce cryonics,
>and in much stronger terms.
>
>  
>

Actually, I emailed Dr Lynch, asking him about this quote, and in his 
emailed reply to me he said that, "One always has to be careful about 
taking what is said in the press too literally."
 
He also said that his "comments concerning cryonics were that it was 
impossible for the long foreseeable future, in science you should be 
careful not to say never. "

So, another article massaged and slanted by the media. What a surprise.  
Try reading Noam Chomsky's _Manufacturing Consent_ for some insights 
into how the media push an agenda.

--randy

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