Skip to comments.
What makes us human? The unfortunate 'rat people' of Pakistan could provide the answer.
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| August 1, 2006
| by Armand Leroi
Posted on 07/31/2006 6:59:25 PM PDT by aculeus
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-55 next last
Nazia, a 30-year-old with microcephaly. She guards the shoes at the Shua Dulah shrine
1
posted on
07/31/2006 6:59:26 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
To: aculeus
To: aculeus
I know it's not right to make fun of these unfortunate people, but the temptation of "DemocRat People" is irresistable.
To: SunkenCiv
5
posted on
07/31/2006 7:17:13 PM PDT
by
blam
To: aculeus; RightOnTheLeftCoast
To
aculeus: Interesting article. Thanks.
To RightOnTheLeftCoast: I beg folks to please stop posting that disgusting picture. It ruins an otherwise interesting and informative thread, and is no longer funny (post it once you're a wit; post it twice you're a half-wit; arithmetic progression from there).
6
posted on
07/31/2006 7:18:43 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Coyoteman
To RightOnTheLeftCoast: I beg folks to please stop posting that disgusting picture. It ruins an otherwise interesting and informative thread, and is no longer funny (post it once you're a wit; post it twice you're a half-wit; arithmetic progression from there). Thanks. I hope it does some good but these "wits" tend to be a thick as boards.
7
posted on
07/31/2006 7:21:35 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
Microcephaly cannot be cured. But it can now be prevented. Now that some of the mutations have been found, parents from families with a history of the disorder can have their newly conceived embryos tested. If the embryo has two copies of the mutation, it can be aborted. Come now. You mean, the law will require the embryo to be aborted.
Abortion to the...rescue?
How casually we toss the term around now, in our public press. Simple solution. What else will soon be just as palatable?
To: aculeus
"To be sure, chimps have versions of these genes, but the human version is different. So different, in fact, that their evolution must have been driven by natural selection."Rubbish. "Natural Selection" merely eliminates an existing group/population...it doesn't change anything in a gene.
9
posted on
07/31/2006 7:25:44 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Coyoteman
Then my wit is down by a few decimal places by now.
Sorry.
...But which picture are you talking about?
To: aculeus
Microcephaly cannot be cured. But it can now be prevented. Now that some of the mutations have been found, parents from families with a history of the disorder can have their newly conceived embryos tested. If the embryo has two copies of the mutation, it can be aborted. I have a better solution. How about not marrying your cousin.
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
...But which picture are you talking about? I was referring to the Helen Thomas picture; I didn't notice the same person had posted both.
The second is equally disgusting, but does not show up so often, so has not become so objectionable.
But I really am tired of the Helen Thomas picture. I'm tempted to start hitting the abuse button when it shows up. Sorry to spoil your fun but that is optical abuse.
12
posted on
07/31/2006 7:44:28 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: aculeus
Should a child be born with an insufficiency of one of these proteins, the neuroblasts fail to divide.DNA is the locksmith and proteins are the keys.
13
posted on
07/31/2006 7:45:30 PM PDT
by
Rudder
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Who is that??(Post three)
14
posted on
07/31/2006 7:49:37 PM PDT
by
justche
(If you're afraid of the future, then get out of the way, stand aside. - Ronald Reagan)
To: vbmoneyspender
I have a better solution. How about not marrying your cousin..
Watch it there, buster. You're treading on thin multicultural ice. < /sarc>
To: justche
The Great Nostrildamus, of course.
16
posted on
07/31/2006 7:53:30 PM PDT
by
MarineDad
(Whenever mosques and JDAM's meet, civilization benefits.)
To: aculeus
What makes us human is that we have human parents --and a soul. Is it so hard to admit that these are merely unfortunate souls?
17
posted on
07/31/2006 8:00:01 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: aculeus
Just grind up a few senators, suck up some stem cells from the goo, and inject 'em into these poor folks. The senatorial fat-headed genes ought to fix them right up.
To: GATOR NAVY
You are saying that modern science has caught up with folk wisdom?
19
posted on
07/31/2006 8:01:28 PM PDT
by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: justche
Congressman Henry Waxman, D-Santa Monica.
The only Congresscritter with his very own emoticon:
:8)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-40, 41-55 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson