For serious?

[jade__faerie]

"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research -- human cloning in all its forms -- creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos."

-The Prez, State of the Union Address

So, that really was a centuar crossing the

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[rustycutlass]

actually,i think he was referring to trangenic drug manufacture...which is a very good thing. i have an article about it in one of my magazines, and they have a picture of a goat. THE GOAT IS SMILING. unless of course he is referring to the island of dr. moreau (the crappy mid nineties movie version, not the good book by h.g. wells)where val kilmer fights, then joins up with marlon brando's animan army. then david thewlis fucks a catlady. who is played by the lady who was vicky valencourt in the waterboy. which means that the president doesn't want anymore adam sandler movies about animal/human breeding. this is why W hates rob schneider.

[jade__faerie]

That seems very logical. However, what happened to the catlady's offspring? I'm sure she had a bun in the oven. Because that's what cats do. Breed.

[whiskeybullets]

because of the outrage over the use of human stem cells for scientific research, some scientists around the world have begun mixing human genes with other animals to create all sorts of forms of chimera. most notably this has been with mice, rabbits, and pigs. the fertalized embryos are destroyed and the stem cells are harvested for research. that way the scientists can get stem cells for research purposes from sources that aren't technically human, bypassing some of the legal concerns that hinder american scientists. additionally, researches have been looking into chimera as organ donors. the idea would be to create an organ farm of sorts. right now it's not illegal to do this, so scientists are free to mix human cells with anything they want. i personally, find it all scary, and agree that something should be done. but something based on reason, science, and practical ethics, not the bible.

[jade__faerie]

so serious! that's no fun

but, you are very right

[mondo896]

Its at times like these that I loooove being a biologist.

[magnanonymous]

I'm all for anything that can cause potential chaos on this planet. But, unfortunately (for all the believers), just because a mouse has an ear on its back, doesn't mean an evil version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is goign to come up from the sewers and whoop the crap out of everyone. The turtles were like 3 ft. tall anyway! Jesus! Mr. President, get your comic factoids straight before you go scaring the nation, dick!