[extropy-chat] Wired: Response re "Transhumanist Nut-Jobs"

[spike]

Perfect!  Gregory, this is really good stuff man!

Calling someone a nut job is not liable, but this measured and indignant
response will prick the conscience of WIRED far more than a lawsuit.  This
solution is far better than my own suggestion of laughing it off.

spike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-
> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of nvitamore at austin.rr.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:52 AM
> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
> Cc: wta-talk at transhumanism.org
> Subject: [extropy-chat] Wired: Response re "Transhumanist Nut-Jobs"
> 
> 
> This is the first of ExI's responses to Bijal Trivedi's article...
> 
> Natasha
> 
> ____________________________________________
> 
> To Wired Editor:
> 
> I was very disappointed when I read Bijal Trivedi's article about work on
> low- temperature suspension of trauma subjects.
> 
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/posts.html?pg=4
> 
> In what looks like a throw-away line, he wrote: "Long the domain of
> transhumanist nut-jobs, cryogenic suspension may be just two years away
> from clinical trials on humans ..."
> 
> During the early years of WIRED's existence, the magazine took a
> consistently visionary and optimistic approach to science and
technology...
> "transhumanist nut-job" serves the magazine and your audience very poorly.
> 
> Greg Burch