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Republican Senator Brownback Wasting Our Time and Money
This man is Senator Sam Brownback...Republican extremist:
(picture from Orbitcast)
He has introduced a bill to the US Senate that goes like this:
The Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act would ban the creation of human-animal hybrids. Human-animal hybrids are defined as those part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species. The bill is modest in scope and only affects efforts to blur the genetic lines between animals and humans.
Which basically seems aimed at protecting America from this:
(picture from Babyblogblog)
Yes...that's right, the Republican extremist Senator from Kansas wants to protect America from fantasies. I am a developmental biologist and I can tell you that no one, NO ONE is trying to make a human-animal hybrid and it is abyssmally stupid to introduce this bill. If voters in Kansas aren't embarassed as hell by Brownback's stupid bill, they sure as hell should be.
Re: Republican Senator Brownback Wasting Our Time and Money
Actually, it's worse than that. I haven't read the bill, but theoretically, couldn't this be read as banning laboratory mice engineered to develop with human immune systems, or to grow certain human cancers? These are highly useful creatures for medical research. I'd hate to see them banned.
Re: Republican Senator Brownback Wasting Our Time and Money
Yes it could. Depending on how broadly it is interpreted, it could stymie a great deal of critical research AND could stop the production of insulin for diabetes patients, to add another example. I cannot imagine ANY useful application of this bill, but, like you, I can imagine an extreme misuse of it that would condemn many Americans to death.