merkle.pa@arisia.xerox.com (01/04/90)
Arthur C. Clarke has made the following statement about cryonics:
"...as far as the scientific issue is concerned, the statements
(a) cryonics has no chance of working and
(b) cryonics does not advance scientific or medical knowledge,
are both obviously wrong, as is amply proved by expert testimony.
Although no one can quantify the probability of cryonics working,
I estimate it is at least 90% - and certainly nobody can say it is zero!
The statement that it does not advance scientific knowledge is absolutely
ridiculous, because whether it will work or not, research in this
area will obviously be of great medical value."
"I would go so far as to say that anyone who maintains positions
(a) and (b) is not only incompetent but guilty of doing grave damage
to society - like the doctors who opposed anesthetics and even
asceptics, in the last century, because they were 'against Nature'!"