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Post by mmmmbarium on May 10, 2006 0:32:35 GMT -5
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Post by KNOWTHIS on May 10, 2006 5:17:44 GMT -5
Ahhh, good ole hybrids….. If you remember Bush expressed his great concern about hybrids in the State of the Union Address. He was really worried about the creation of mutant animal/human hybrids. ;D Stephanie Miller joked that thanks to Bush we wouldn’t have to worry about Minotaurs running around wreaking havoc. These people have no clue at all when it comes to anything dealing with science. www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=1426267President Bush’s “Hybrid” ProblemIn his State of the Union Address last week President Bush portentously warned us about a creature waiting to burst forth from our biology labs: human-animal hybrids. Surely it would be pointless and disgusting to create such things, and no scientist is contemplating doing that, so what was the president talking about?Now in fairness we can’t expect presidents to be experts in everything, but we can expect their speechwriters not to embarrass them with their own ignorance. President Bush was poorly served by his staffers, who apparently don’t know the difference between a hybrid and a chimera. All they had to do was Google the terms and they would have discovered that a hybrid is the offspring of two genetically different animals, like a mule, which is the sterile product of a male donkey and a female horse.
In their confused way, what President Bush and his writers seem to have been referring to were lab animals that, for example, could be made to have pancreatic cells with human genes, so that new drugs for diabetes could be tested on them rather than children. Is President Bush really against that?
Or perhaps the president and his wordsmiths are really worried about people with animal cells in them. In that case you’d better steer clear of Uncle Fred with his porcine heart valve. He’s a chimera!............................................................................................... Bush's plan worked though. You don't see any Minotaurs around do you? LOL! ;D Maybe Bush should merge with his dog Barney? His IQ might even rise.
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