Actually, the real fool would be anyone who relied on a media report of the research rather than the actual scientific data involved.
Despite MSNBC’s characterization here, it is impossible to create a mouse with a human brain, which is exactly what O’Donnell claimed happened.
No, that is not what Christine O’Donnell claimed. O’Donnell stated that scientists “ARE COMING UP WITH” — working on, NOT that they had already done it.
The topic of the evening was whether this kind of experimentation should be allowed. THe whole point of the discussion was whether to ban this type of research.
The discussion would make no sense if it had already been achieved.
Christine was clearly saying that scientists were WORKING ON it, which is exactly what the April 2005 MSNBC report says.
IF you want to say that MSNBC and the Associated Press got it wrong, go ahead.
But O’Donnell accurately reported from the MSNBC / Associated Press report