Britain’s got secrets: 150+ human chimeras produced over 3 years
I argued in Parliament against the creation of human-animal hybrids as a matter of principle. None of the scientists who appeared before us could give us any justification in terms of treatment.
Ethically it can never be justifiable – it discredits us as a country. It is dabbling in the grotesque.
At every stage the justification from scientists has been: if only you allow us to do this, we will find cures for every illness known to mankind. This is emotional blackmail.
Of the 80 treatments and cures which have come about from stem cells, all have come from adult stem cells – not embryonic ones. On moral and ethical grounds this fails; and on scientific and medical ones too.
~ House of Lords member Baron David Alton of Liverpool, remarking on the discovery that 155 human-animal chimera embryos had been secretly produced over the past 3 years in 3 different UK labs, Daily Mail, July 23
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“Emotional blackmail,” in order to do whatever research tickles their fancy is exactly right. When we embraced our Judeo-Christian heritage, our ethics in research were guided by the fundamentals of Judeo-Christian anthropology. We had a sense of who we were, that there was something special and sacred about humanity.
What we see here in the formation of human-lower animal chimeras is a concrete expression of science having cast off the mantle of Judeo-Christian anthropology. We are no different than the lower order animals if we are not sacred. The chimeric embryos are not just the work of a few mad scientists.
They are symbolic totems of who we have become as a civilization in decline. They are the windows into the soul of Western Civilization.
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It’s “dabbling in the grotesque”, alright.
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They are the windows into the soul of Western Civilization.
Unfortunately, I think this is true.
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Is this the Island of Dr. Moreau’s or something?
Just because science can do something doesn’t mean it should, and what in the world is the point?
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There is nothing new under the sun. Transhumanism (click for an excellent explanatory video) has been around a very long time. For its reintroduction, people just had to reach the point where the bioethical question of “Should we?” was replaced with a mere, “Can we?”
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The comments after the original article are enought to freeze the blood in your vessels. Ewww!
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Jack: Is this the Island of Dr. Moreau’s or something?
Ha! Good thing I read through the posts – I was going to say:
Dr. Moreau: What is the law?
Sayer of the Law: Not to eat meat, that is the law. Are we not men?
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this is disturbing. NO ONE SHOULD PLAY GOD!
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mine, the good thing is we never get to see any of those things. but I saw one mice with a human ear on its back. i am scared.
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