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Mouse Stunt

Mouse Stunt

Dealing another blow to rationality is the plan to create a human-mouse hybrid, both from the potential for horrifying outcomes (the spectacle of a human fetus in conceived in a mouse womb has already been suggested) and the over-the-top coverage you get with these stories, whether mice or human clones. These news items are scientific stunts that only hurt the effort to reach a rational national policy on genetic research that pulls us out of the Dark Ages. The current research regime places the U.S. behind almost every country in the world in terms of options within the lab.