Does Bush know something we don't know: animal-human hybrids.

[MikeMcc]

So what does the clown mean by animal-human hybrids, sheep or goats that produce insulin in their milk, pigs that produce Factor-8 for heamaphiliacs(?), modified e-coli that are used in drug discovery trials? Or has been listening to the bullshit stories about how Stalin was looking at 'super-soldiers'?

It sounds alot like the rubbish that Prince Charles sprouted about the 'grey-goo' belief about nano-technology, just baseless rubbish sprouted by ill-informed advisors.

 

[Rentonite]

Well, there are going to be changes, thats for shure.

 

[MikeMcc]

The human Cloning thing Is here to stay. Ya cant uninvent something after it has been invented.
Cloning has been common knowledge for years as a "someday Possible" type of thing.
The "someday" is today
As more and more reasearch is done and more and more successful cloning comes to pass, what was once only science fiction is now science fact
we cant stop it and we cant control it.
there will be cloned humans there will be engineerred children
a situation like in the blade runner book is quickly becomeing a real possibility
cloned people that are designed to do certain tasks is not a unthinkable situation.
It is not going to be as bad as we think it might be, nor will it be as good as it could be either.
a "standard entertainment unit" that looks like Daryl Hanna twenty years ago does sound interesting
HeHeheeheheeeheheheheheehehhhehehe

(returning from Bevis fantasy land)

Cloning is here, we can either go with it or not.
If we dont figure out the details someone else will.
Just like nuclear weapons, ya cant uninvent them.

Except for the small details:

1) It hasn't been invented! The attempts so far (on lower animals) have all been flawed, with problems of lack of resistance to disease, accelerated aging, etc, or have been discredited.

2) That, in most countries, unlicenced experiments on cloning can lead to prison terms!

3) Even if cloning can be done, we are a long, long way from being able to cherry pick attributes. This is a long way from genetic treatments for disorders in naturally produced children.

4) The ability to over-ride self-will in your clones, so that they would willingly carry out certain sort of tasks is a ridiculous assumption. Unless you have an organisation that can raise and indocrinate thenm to accept that life! Given the views of most of the religious nuts in your part of the world, they might be up for the indoctrination part, but not on the cloning part.

 

[aylee]

In his state of the union address, Bush declared that we must be vigilant against animal-human hybrids:

"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. Human life is a gift from our Creator -- and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale. (Applause.)"

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/state-of-the-union-address/2006/02/01/1138590550050.html?page=11

What does the president know, and do we all need to be a little more concerned?

They're taking over the world, I tell you!

 

[guinnessdrinker]

Maybe there's an exodus of Jewish buffalo from Canada!

maybe he could google for mireille sircoff position on buffalos/oes/i.