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Human Animal Hybrid Created in Lab

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-wants-a-tail dept.

guanno writes "National Geographic has an article stating that... "Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras--a hybrid creature that's part human, part animal."

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  1. False Advertising by strider44 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is false advertising - when most people think Chimera they think Dongeons and Dragons etc. They even have a picture of a lion with the head of a goat and the tail as a serpant.

    So I read this article and it talks about cells in petri dishes and mice with 1% human brains (which, from what I've read, is a bit of a downgrade).

    I think that there's no sense in starting an uproar over "creating new species" and "playing god" yet. A petri dish is ever so slightly different from a goat-lion-serpant or a girlfriend with the head of a shark.

  2. Re:How is this legal? by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Informative

    because we have brains a few thousand times larger than mice, not because of any special virtue of our brain tissue, and our brain cells are certainly not going to be optimal for controlling a mouse's body and living as a mouse

    Wrong.

    Your argument at best is an oversimplification.

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  3. Re:Moral consistency by dcw3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ever heard of the phrase "cow tipping?

    Ever done it? I'd bet a bundle you haven't! For those who believe this bullshit (pun intended), take a look at:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tipping

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