Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Chimeras - Never Let Me Go

So, what's a chimera? English and Welsh bishops say that chimeras are humans and deserve life and dignity.

Porthos recommended Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. It apparently has come to this ...

4 comments:

Mike/DC said...

I have smelled the Brave New World

Anonymous said...

Never Let Me Go is a great novel. Chilling to see where we are headed.

swissmiss said...

Goodness. What in the world is going on with "scientists?" I thought Darwin talked about Evolution of the Species not the merging of them. What hath mankind wrought?!!
What is the point of all this, to what end? It makes no sense other than to be playing God in the lab.

Henry Karlson said...

The main interest in Chimeras, at least for now, is to find a way to do experiments in a way which does not "harm a human."

As if, even if it were not human, that makes it ethical.

Where are all the animal rights activists?