Prez Panders to Anti-Manimal Lobby!

**Lemur** · 02-02-2006, 00:11

A very funny take on the President's State of the Union discussion of cloning and embryonic resedarch. As the article states, Dr. Moreau will leave the country in rage.

**Xiahou** · 02-02-2006, 00:54

Originally Posted by article

He's trusting that everyone will think he is banning monstrous crimes against nature

No, it was pretty much what I thought it was- splicing human genes into animals for testing purposes.

So what scientists have been doing is inserting human genes into mice, to produce similar genetic overdoses in their development. As I reported before, there have been partial insertions, but now a team of researchers has inserted a complete human chromosome 21 into mouse embryonic stem cells

**Lemur** · 02-02-2006, 05:36

Well, that does it, Xihaou. No more Beastmaster for you! And I stronly suggest you rid yourself of any Animal Man comics you may have laying about.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 02-02-2006, 06:26

Good. I've always despised those freaks.

Crazed Rabbit

**Major Robert Dump** · 02-02-2006, 06:43

I would totally support human/animal splicing if it meant I could get a bigger penis or super-speed or something

**Zalmoxis** · 02-02-2006, 07:14

What? Don't you know that all you have to do is reply to the e-mail in your inbox and your bigger penis is only minutes away?

**Kralizec** · 02-05-2006, 18:43

Scientists have in the past spliced human genes into bacteria so that these bacteria were to produce insulin.

Bush really does hate diabetics.

**Rodion Romanovich** · 02-05-2006, 18:50

Much good can come from cloning and genetical research, but even more bad things. It's difficult to formulate a law that effectively allows the good parts and prohibits the dangerous parts. As long as that obstacle remains it IMO seems logical to prohibit the whole thing. Just imagine how the value of human life would decrease if it was possible to clone and genetically modify people. Already plastic surgery and makeup has dangerous effects to self-esteem, indentity and respect of life. It's not just a myth that some scientists are working on cloning actual human beings and perform similar very unethical and dangerous things. So while the decision might be caused by religious values and way of thinking, there's scientific and humanistic argumentation for the decision.