Good morning 3.5 readers.
BQB here with another daily discussion.
Chimeras. They’ve been in the news lately.
Not gonna lie. Up until now I thought they only existed in that video game, Resistance, about an alternate World War II in which the US fought human/animal monsters.
But nope. Various news outlets are reporting that scientists are indeed working on making part-human/part-animal embryos.
“Chimera” is a word from Greek mythology, used to denote a part animal/part human.
Scientists claim in various stories I have read, such as this one from NPR that this effort isn’t being done in the hopes of creating some kind of awful animal man, but rather, to study diseases, learn about ways to improve health, and perhaps even be able to grow human organs inside of animals that can be harvested for terminally ill human patients.
But the experiments are controversial, so much so that the National Institutes of Health have ceased funding them until the issue can be studied more, according to the above article.
Personally, I’m suspicious of everyone and everything. I can already see my nemesis, Dr. Hugo Von Science, using this research to raise his own army of pig men, goat men, horse men, dog men, cat men and elephant men to conquer the world.
On the other hand, the idea that I could keep a pig in the back yard with some extra organs in case I need one is intriguing.
It’d have to be an actual pig. If it were a pig man then I’d feel bad.
What say you, 3.5 readers? Yay or nay on chimeras?
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