Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][Politics] State of the Union

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> I did a google search on human-animal hybrids.  I am guessing that this 
> article does a good job of explaining the issues:
>
> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html
>
> I also found this article by an anti-hybrid activist:
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1437701,00.html


"Hybrids" should involve use of sperm and egg, I would think, while 
chimeras can be produced by mixing other cell types.  Anyway, Bush may 
well have been thinking about this chimera research.

Jeremy Rifkin is a famous alarmist.  He's been doing this for decades. 
His idea that a mouse with human brain cells would have a human mind or 
human intelligence is absurd.  The human brain is rather large for a 
mouse's head, so I don't think it's going to happen.

Mike

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