Frankenmonkeys Designed By Scientists
438 ViewsI’ve long respected the work over at Thomas Paine’s Corner, which champions the cause of animal liberation and the horrible realities of vivisection.
But this “health revolution” is sure to piss some of these people off (including me) — Creation of ‘GM’ monkey heralds health revolution
Researchers have developed a technique to create genetically modified monkeys that suffer from human illnesses.
Experimenting on these monkeys, they believe, will advance our understanding and treatment of incurable conditions such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis. However, the scientific breakthrough has caused consternation among groups opposed to animal experiments because the development will almost certainly lead to a sudden increase in the number of primates used in medical research at a time when there are calls for fewer monkeys to be used in experiments.
The development also raises the prospect that we will be able to apply the technique to humans – another primate. This could help families affected by inherited disorders such Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis by permenantly eradicating their defective genes from future generations.
More here (I’d just hit “submit” and Lonewolf sent me this): Green-glowing monkeys have green-glowing babies
By now, you should well realize that when science and technology and medicine “promise” to deliver, they often don’t. And if they do deliver, it always, always comes at a very high price, often one which we do not discover for many years their terrifying side effect.
Anybody remember Freon? This is one of thousands of examples of how a new ‘wonder’ is developed with the promise to save us all, but then we discover we did something even worse …
This one is not hard at all to see as being morally wrong. Vivisectionist today are a terrible groups of butchers who do all kinds of horrible and nasty things to caged animals. Not much different then your modern factory farm, but I digress.
The so-called ‘promise’ in this article isn’t fact, it’s speculation at this point. Scientists are ’saving’ us, once again.
But never mind that. This is not the way to go about developing human cures for human diseases.
Filed under Environment, Terrorism and Tyranny because that’s exactly what this is. You don’t need to be a human to be terrorized.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:01 am
I just watched all three parts of this documentary film last night. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7141762977713668208
Part one explains some of the terms such as AI, AGI, and Singularity. These are terms of the Brave New World of creating human/machine hybrids, which eventually will transcend humans. What is going on is that there are literally untold numbers of mad scientists that want to become God, and they come right out and say that.
Relating to the issue of animal experimentation is a short clip on a really insane and barbaric experiment where the head of one monkey was put on the body of another monkey. The tortured beast lived for seven days, and the torturer of these beasts says that he’s proud of his work. What isn’t mentioned is that he showed the film of his monkey hybrid in Italy, and the crowd was so enraged that they stormed the stage and allegedly kicked his ass.
There are scenes of brains in jars that are “alive,” and these guys are “stimulating” them as part of their tests. Another group has figured out how to grow brain neurons on computer chips, keep them alive, and train them (in the case shown, flying a jet airplane on a simulator).
Czech science fiction writer Karel Capek warned us decades ago about technology that is out of control and tampering with nature in his two classic books R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots, Capek coined the phrase robot) and War With the Newts. How can we stop this insanity? It may have gone too far to stop. One guy bleats that he will kill anyone that tries to stop him.
This is the site where I found this film link. http://ignoranceisfutile.wordpress.com/
May 28th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
And animal rights activists are being relabled terrorist simply cuz they don’t believe in animal experimentation. Yep… watch them there beliefs, or you could be up against the wall.