X-Message-Number: 33364 From: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:05:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: comments re Darwin Here I'll just touch briefly on a couple of points raised by Mike Darwin's recent post. His analysis of the reasons for slow growth are largely unsupported and unconvincing, and he leaves out a moderately prominent one--viz., the embracing by many cryonicists of nonsense such as uploading. econlog.econlib has a piece by one writer who was turned off cryonics by an advocate who embraced uploading. I don't have all the relevant figures, but it is clear (1) that many in cryonics do embrace uploading etc. and (2) that these fantasies are easy bubbles to prick. Then there is the assertion, more or less, that all publicity is bad publicity and all media coverage should be avoided. Again, what is lacking is supporting data. In particular, of those who have joined, what precipitated their decisions? If it wasn't reading an article or a book or a web site, what was it, and what was behind that? Robert Ettinger Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=33364