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The 'yuk' factor
This sort of thinking beggars belief. It's scientific fascism because we would be creating other beings whose very existence would be to serve the dominant group. It is morally regressive to create a mutant form of life.
-- Professor Andrew Linzey, an animal ethicist at Oxford University, denouncing the cloning of an embryo of a headless frog, which scientists say could lead to headless human clones.
There are no ethical issues because you are not doing any harm to anyone. It is a question of whether it is acceptable or not to the public and that depends on the "yuk" factor.
-- Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology, University College, London.
From: "Headless frog opens way for human organ factory," in the Oct. 19 Sunday Times of London.
SALON | Oct. 21, 1997

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		`Q U O T E--O F--T H E--D A Y` The 'yuk' factor This sort of thinking beggars belief. It's scientific fascism because we would be creating other beings whose very existence would be to serve the dominant group. It is morally regressive to create a mutant form of life. -- Professor Andrew Linzey, an animal ethicist at Oxford University, denouncing the cloning of an embryo of a headless frog, which scientists say could lead to headless human clones. There are no ethical issues because you are not doing any harm to anyone. It is a question of whether it is acceptable or not to the public and that depends on the "yuk" factor. -- Lewis Wolpert, professor of biology, University College, London. From: "Headless frog opens way for human organ factory," in the Oct. 19 Sunday Times of London. SALON \| Oct. 21, 1997