From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 23:15:04 MST
(I'm crossposting this from CryoNet as I think it is relevant to a recent
discussion here).
Trygve Bauge wrote:
>Re the cryonic winter festival in Nederland Colorado.
>"The frozen dead guy festival" (Grandpa Bredo's festival)
>Press release from Trygve Bauge.
Despite the fact that I have largely turned away from the cryonics field
after the demise of Kryos Biomedical, I still read CryoNet, and I still
find myself shaking my head in both disgust and regret for what could have
been (and maybe...just maybe could still be) a promising industry.
It need not be said here that Trygve is a kook. A loon. Someone with a
skewered sense of reality, but yet, like many kooks and loons before him,
he has to inflict his looniness on all those around him. And in his case,
it is cryonics itself.
When an esoteric industry such as cryonics gets *any* amount of bad press
whatsoever, people in general form opinions that are unfortunately, for the
most part true. By having loons create press releases such as this, I
can't help but wonder if cryonics will ever get a single iota of
credibility in the eyes of the scientific community and in society in
general. Part of the reason I am no longer involved in cryonics is because
I think the answer is "no." And that is just really too bad.
Trygve, no doubt, will read this and say: "What's wrong with what I'm
doing?" thinking that he is actually helping things progress. I think
Shakespeare put it best: "O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown."
E. Shaun Russell
Former COO, Kryos Biomedical
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