http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3204128.ece

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Movies like 28 days later would appear to be appropriately set in England.

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-Laurence J. Peters

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-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

How delightfully twisted. God bless the pursuit of medical knowledge.

Better not let the little buggers grow up. They'd give the taxonomists fits.

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They destroy the embryos after 14 days.

And note that the genetic material being used is human. The genetically-empty cows eggs is used more or less as an incubator. Easier to do than getting a bunch of human eggs for this research.

As usual, certain elements of the media (who don't understand the science) are getting unnecessarily worked up over it. Between global-warming and things like this, I'm almost ready to avoid any popular reporting on science. The media is so bad at it.

Doesn't change the fact science and scientists are way to willing to play with things in ways we really shouldn't be playing. Just because you can do something, does not mean you should or that you can possibly prepare for any and all side effects or complications.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

So given that they're just studying these and then destroying the embryos after 14 days, what side effects or complications do you envision?

I envision that they will ask for and be granted MORE then what they are doing now. And eventually some one WILL impregnate something with some monstrousity for "scientific" research. This is just the first step leading to that.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

You can make those kind of slippery slope arguments all day long and stop most any kind of scientific research with it. If they can gain some insight to disease doing this thing with the cow eggs, I don't think it is a problem. I also don't think they could implant these embryos even if they wanted to, but hopefully we won't find out.

Yes lets destroy our economies because "maybe" man is causeing global warming, but hey lets just "hope" no one does anything dangerous with scientific research like this.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

There is nothing here that's new to do anything dangerous with. This has all been done before in animals. Anyone who wanted to do something "dangerous" with it could have done it just as easily before this research as after, so that's a red herring. The technique is known, they just want to employ it to learn something about disease.

As for global warming, if people would quit politicizing the issue and understood the science better, no one would be suggesting things like Al Gore does. The guy doesn't know the first thing about science, which is why he won't debate a scientist on the issue.

My, God, next they will try for heavier than air flight machines.

Not the same and you full well know it. But do try and pretend otherwise. Usual ploy by liberals is to twist the message and make it into something it is not. Why? Because the truth can not work for them.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

There was a time when some people thought that “the pill” was an evil not to be tolerated. We are not to experiment with science and nature.

Well, “Inanimate objects (airplanes) versus embryos” is not a good comparison. Yet, with advances in medical science to date, I think that the good has greatly outweighed the bad. We are making great advances in gene therapy science for cancer patients. We have even grown human ear cartilage in mice:



I have yet to see Frankenstein or other science fiction horror movie come to life.

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