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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:56:27 EDT
Subject: radio discussion

Since apparently no one has publicly reported on the radio discussion, I'll  
summarize it as I heard it.
 
The guests included Jonathon Moreno, a professor of biomedical ethics at  the 
U. of Virginia, John Bischof, a professor of mechanical engineering at the  

U. of Minnesota and president of the Society for Cryobiology, and Brian Wowk, a
 senior scientist and cryobiologist at 21CM (Twenty First Century Medicine). 
 
The ethicist wasn't too bad, not as dogmatic or negative as some of  them, 
but of course tending to dwell on the putative negatives of indefinitely  long 
life, as well as some of the philosophical problems of identity.
 
Bischoff didn't really concede anything, and in his opening implied that  
cryonics isn't scientific, but he acknowledged that Wowk knows more about  
cryonics, and was pretty mild.
 
Brian Wowk did a good job of explaining cryonics, what it has accomplished  
and has still to accomplish, and clarified some of the misunderstandings  held 
by most cryobiologists. 
 
The moderator or introducer was not especially negative.
 
URL for the discussion is 

_http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=178892_ 
(http://www.seti.org/site/pp.asp?c=ktJ2J9MMIsE&b=178892) 
 
Robert Ettinger


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