Wednesday, August 03, 2005

The Planet of The Apes A Reality?

Scientists recently implanted human brain cells in monkey fetuses hoping to have a better understanding of stem cells. They expect to learn from this experiment, "Why human brain cells do not work in monkies." However, if the brain cells do work, what happens? Do we now have a smarter monkey species? Also, what do you do with these kind of monkies? Do you allow them to breed? Do you just kill them off? ... and if so, is this another ethical situation at hand? Scientists claim that doing stem cell research as this, they will be able to solve brain diseases (such as Alzheimer). Does the reward of curing Alzheimer really out weigh this moral delema?

But there's one thing I have to say about this whole situation...... MONKEY BUTTLERS!!!

For more information on this subject:
'Human-brained' monkeys
Moral Debate: Procedure Ricks Making Monkies More Like Humans

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