Brain death

July 21st, 2006 by Monitor

The Sun has conjured another story out of nothing by means of a single phone call to John Beyer of Mediawatch-UK. Beyer’s breathtakingly inane comments on a Channel 5 show enabled reporter Derek Robins to begin his piece:

TV watchdogs have panned a Channel Five documentary about a woman being cryonically frozen.

The program, Death in the Deep Freeze, is about a cancer sufferer who dies and is cryogenically frozen. Calling Massah John:

There’s a feeling of sensationalism about the whole thing. It’s giving people false hope that this process actually works when there is no proof it does.

said the Christian smut-campaigner.

I would question whether this programme is in the public interest as cryogenics is very much experimental.

So because the science of cryogenics is “experimental” (as is any other branch of science, by definition), it is not in the “public interest” for it to be shown?

Christ on a bike.


2 Responses to “Brain death”

  1. Andrew Nixon says:
    21/Jul/2006 at 2:14 pm

    It’s giving people false hope that this process actually works when there is no proof it does.

    Oh the irony.

  2. Stuart says:
    22/Jul/2006 at 1:35 pm

    As Beyer appears to be using the brain of Leviticus, can we first ask how he obtained it (if not by cryogenics) and secondly if he intends giving it back?