Infant rat heads grafted onto adults' thighs (grafted heads could be "excellent models" )

New Scientist ^ | 12/3/02 | Emma Young

[Mark Felton]

hhhhmmmmmm.....

[Miss Marple]

OK. Who would allow a RAT HEAD to be grafted onto his THIGH, and it would MOVE ITS MOUTH!??!

This is beyond creepy. Arrest these people!

[pabianice]

Grafted onto peoples' legs? Yeah, but after a month or two, the peoples' legs start wanting to eat garbage and copulate...

[Camber-G]

Who would allow a RAT HEAD to be grafted onto his THIGH ...

I think the baby rat head was grafted onto the thigh of an adult rat, not a person ... but nonetheless, I still think its too creepy, even for a rat.

[boris]

Oh boy. They're cloning DemoRATS...

--Boris

[boris]

Fish heads
Fish heads
Rolly Polly Fish heads
Fish heads
Fish heads...Eat them up, yum!

[F16Fighter]

A transplanted [rat] brain can develop as normal for at least three weeks, and the mouth of the head will move...

This kind of research has potential -- especially for human candidates within the Democratic Senate...specifically, in the state of New York.

[Dog Gone]

This sounds creepy but it is sound medical research. It could lead to saving babies who might otherwise be hopelessly brain damaged.

[Vidalia]

Damn ya fast typing kinds...

[Orangedog]

Why do I get the feeling that these Doctor Frankenstein wanna-bees are aching to for a human to try this on?

[Solamente]

If Hillary got a rat head sewn to her perineum, her pantsuit would never have to come off, it'd be self cleaning!

[Miss Marple]

LOL! I reread the article and you are correct. However, I now have this visual that is WAY too icky bouncing around in my brain.

I was trying to figure out if the people with the rat heads on their legs had to wear shorts for the duration, and other such practicalities! Ha!

It still is creepy, though. Just not quite as creepy.

[Libertina]

Calling Dr. Moreau

[The KG9 Kid]

"... It could lead to saving babies who might otherwise be hopelessly brain damaged."

I'm thinking hard about why on Earth we'd ever want to do that...

... Nope, nothing's coming.

I'm beat. Maybe someone else can give me a reason why we'd want to keep a decapitated baby's head alive on a person's thigh.

[Cicero]

Like small boys pulling the wings off flies. It reminds me of an incident in a terrific novel I read a couple of weeks ago, which I warmly recommend to anyone who likes to read strange, unusual, but beautifully written novels. It's Kirsten Bakis, "Lives of the Monster Dogs."

[Camber-G]

... but it is sound medical research ...

I know, and I don't want to be accused of being a PETA-lover of all things, but I can't help thinking about these rats walking around with tiny little baby heads sewed on to their legs.
It gives me the willies ... sorry.

[Bedford Forrest]

"Why do I get the feeling that these Doctor Frankenstein wanna-bees are aching to for a human to try this on?"

Actually, The Klintonstein has already contacted these ghouls - seems he is negotiating to have the head of a 14 year old Valley Girl grafted onto one of his grotesquely fat, fish bellied thighs. No reason stated.

[pgobrien]

Doug and the Slugs

[Bedford Forrest]

Hey, that's a reasonably well bred Siberian you are trashing- next time use a Dobie or an Alaskan [joke].

[ZOOKER]

"So, is that a rock in your pocket or are you just glad to ---

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