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This is proof positive that the idea of cryonics has taken hold in the mainstream consciousness.
During the past several years, I've watched my health return via a relatively new (and, in the beginning, obscure) medical protocol, and as a member of the study cohort, I've watched the protocol and its science grow toward mainstream acceptance. It's getting its big break right now--the discovering scientist and his team have no less than five articles going to press in major journals. One can probably guess that members of my patient community have gotten some knee-jerk reactions and taken some personal flak, but the mainstreaming, instead of helping, seems to be making it worse.
We've seen the usual fluff, some trumpeting of the failed common "wisdom" by the popular media (which makes us look more crack-potty for going against it), and some blog discussions that show how badly information gets distorted when it's passed around second hand. But in particular, there was an inflammatory article written by a certain alternative health guru and published in his newsletter. It poked fun at our appearance (avoiding light exposure is part of the protocol), made ad hominem attacks against the discovering scientist, and of course, gave a distorted account of the protocol science and questioned our judgment for following it. The article received a lot of attention, and reinforced a lot of misconceptions that we will now have to answer for.
We know that we can expect to see a lot more of this sort of thing as time goes on. As much as we hate it, though, we remind each other that it's a good sign and that it's free publicity.
[Posted by: shegeek at March 31, 2009 4:55 PM]
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