X-Message-Number: 7688 Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 19:50:33 -0500 From: Mark Mugler <> Subject: Gloating Now that the Vissers have the licence agreements with CI and Alcor, I find the gloating by representatives of competing organizations about their recent setbacks a bit unseemly. No doubt the science will prove itself or not in short order. What I find particularly tasteless is the gloating over the difficulties they are having with the South Afican government concerning the use of their cryoprotectant to "cure" AIDS. Here, too, the science will prove itself or not. Would those who gloat approve of the South African government persecuting the Vissers for their efforts? I am reminded of Dr. Burdzynski in Texas, being persecuted by the FDA for his use of antineoplastons with patients who come from out-of-state. I am surprised at these purported libertarians. As far as I am concerned the key issue -- in cryonics, AIDS research, life extension, you name it -- is the heavy hand of government stifling innovation in research and robbing people of free choice. So I say, let the research succeed or fail on its merits, and let us discuss the merits, but let us tremble, not gloat, when governments enter the fray. Mark Mugler Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7688