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Post by rick3 on Aug 16, 2007 16:52:39 GMT -5
USA Today Section D Thursday August 16,2007 page 4D
HEADLINE: "Immortalists" Exposes Achilles' Heel
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever/
Here are two alternative subtitles for David Friedman's fascinating new book, The Immortalists, "Geniuses Do the Creepiest Things" Or "Brains Aren't Everything"?
Freidman's non-fiction account, in stores Tuesday, describes the long collaboration between American aviator Charles Lindbergh and French scientist Alexis Carrel, who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1912. It examines the two men's shared dream: to defeat death and pursue immortality.
This passion would lead Carrel and Lindbergh down the disturbing path of eugenics. They became fixated on the idea of saving the "superior" white race from "inferior" brown people. There were also horrifying experiments on animals. And the whole thing, not unlike many endeavors, began with the best of intentions. end review/"
Causes me to reflect on March 1st 1932......and the true nature of immortality.
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Post by rita on Aug 18, 2007 20:12:25 GMT -5
Do you suppose Carley dissapeared from one of their experiments, like from the movie Titled "I shrunk the Kids"? I can just see Carrell and Lindbergh applying the electodes to Charley from The lightening arrestors to static discharge plates. I think I seen that part somewhere titled "Son of Frankenstein".
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Post by rick3 on Aug 18, 2007 20:25:46 GMT -5
Hi Rita/ well if CAL isnt weird on his lonesome he sure takes the cake with Alexis.....I can see the movie now Alex and Alexis?
First we need to discern if an 8pm start time means that CAL is then our number one suspect? Changing the time line out of the one CAL later presents may be "the tipping point" over from Outsider Kidnap to Insider kidnap? Not too likely CAL heard the ladder break at 915pm if Charlie fell outta the window at 8pm? Unless some high winds blew the ladder over to Featherbed Lane?
Once we decide its an insider job then we can begin to sort out the Whys and Wherefores? there are so many choices: prank, Elisabeth, Dwight Jr., sunlamp, rickets, fall, seizure etc?
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Post by rita on Aug 19, 2007 21:15:58 GMT -5
Hi Rick they sure fit the cartoon character of the year award for their exploits, and even wonder of the heat lamp story was not just another cover story like the kdnap closet prank for Lindbergh and Carrell"s experiments? Could it be that were using Charley in an experiment that went wrong?
When I worked for a large drug company in biological lab, we had a French doctor with French speaking assistant looked exactly like Carrell, and our tissue culture lab had the tissues from Carrell's experiment still alive.
The kidnap story has too many improbable issues surrounding it to be a real story, and the fact the police ignored things that would normaly be suspect like missing employee fingerprints adds to disbelief of the kidnap story. When you add the employee deaths, and in particular Violet's suicide after being questioned at Hopewell this adds to the question mark. Why was Violet questioned at Hopewell, did she make a statement or accusation against Lindbrgh?
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Post by Michael on Aug 28, 2007 5:16:17 GMT -5
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Post by Michael on Sept 2, 2007 10:36:23 GMT -5
I have the book and have been slowly making my way through it. So far I am a little disappointed with the lack of sources for some of the information which I view as unique...but perhaps this gets better. Anyway, here is another review to consider: Die another day By Charles J. Shields | September 2, 2007 The Boston Globe Carrel's opinions strongly influenced Lindbergh. He was honored to work with a Nobel Prize recipient who treated him like a son. So whenever Carrel, as a race-conscious bioscientist, heaved a sigh about the effects of the Great War - that it had reduced the white population and diluted its gene pool - Lindbergh winced in sympathy. To help prevent a second fratricidal war between whites, Lindbergh used his celebrity to call for non-intervention in Europe's affairs in the late 1930s. www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2007/09/02/die_another_day/
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