Human-animal embryo study wins approval

the Guardian (U.K.) ^ | Tuesday September 4 2007 | Ian Sample, science correspondent

[ConorMacNessa]

(Excerpt) Plans to allow British scientists to create human-animal embryos are expected to be approved tomorrow by the government's fertility regulator. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority published its long-awaited public consultation on the controversial research yesterday, revealing that a majority of people were "at ease" with scientists creating the hybrid embryos.

Researchers want to create hybrid embryos by merging human cells with animal eggs, in the hope they will be able to extract valuable embryonic stem cells from them. The cells form the basic building blocks of the body and are expected to pave the way for revolutionary therapies for diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and even spinal cord injuries

[VOA]

They are there to make it appear that someone cares about “ethics,”
and to promote the pretense that the ethical questions are “complex.”

That is one less-than-salutory aspect of the business world melding
with the world of science.

As the old saying goes:
"If you can fake sincerity, you've really got it made!"

[the invisib1e hand]

so, let's see...attempting to create a sub-class of humans as stem - cell donors? Wow. Hitler lives.

But the wicked will come to nothing, and, where sin abounds, grace does all the more abound.

And it's a good thing.

[Salvation]

Sick.

[neverdem]

Where will this lead?

I'm afraid this will lead to nothing that's good, just a waste of money.