Re: Father's Day ad pulled!
Reply #102 –
Yes well, in respect of your first sentence, the fact that it may not be real for most folks is in itself part of the problem. I thought as a scholarly summation it was very good, and well worth knowing and reading.
I'm not trying to stir up any reaction, just making an obsrevation about the mix of people in society.
I can't comment on the rest of your post, except it sounds a bit alarmist to me. The thin end of the wedge is the same logical fallacy that is always used in situations like this. No doubt there were some in the past who thought giving any rights to indigenous people meant that we would all end up in loincloths, carrying spears, and eating worms.
I agree it sounds alarmist, but unlike the analogy to Luddites you've made, the genetic stuff is based on real research!
There are all sorts of spin on this research, an example is linked HERE all about saving endangered species and letting two males bare a child. The counter research that I wrote about also under way to fertilize an ovum from any source of female DNA. The technique is called In Vitro Gametogenesis, and it allows ovum and sperm to be created from discrete cells of any cell line of the same species. (At least they haven't written about crossing species boundaries, and the researcher is not Dr Moreau!)
Alarmists have written about the possibility of less ethical societies building super-soldiers from hybridisation, and there are rumors some institutes in China has already taken the baby steps, full pun intended.