Scott Klusendorf expands on the new techniques I mentioned yesterday that might produce human-like embryos that would not involve the ethical problems of human embryos. This is very new technology and therefore our opinion of it is very provisional. Scott explains more about this - and he's the one I called to ask about it in the first place.
"Here's one plausible answer: For all their talk about promised cures, ESCR advocates know the problems with embryo cell treatments are legion. As a result, they're after bigger game. Indeed, throughout the scientific community, there’s a growing concern that usable cells will not be obtained unless cloned humans can be gestated well past the embryonic stage. Put simply, some researchers want to implant cloned embryos in order to harvest tissues or organs from later term fetuses—a practice known as fetus farming."
All I read here were a bunch of suppositions. One of them is above. This is the sort of thinking that motivated the lock down on Galileo.
Posted by: | August 04, 2006 at 01:02 PM
That's not "one supposition". That's the central thesis of most of the argument, which the article goes to great pains to support. By all means claim that the support is weak (ideally support the claim); but don't selectively quote and pretend that there is no support.
Posted by: William Tanksley | August 06, 2006 at 11:18 AM