Author Topic: Animal Rights Tards Prevent Brain Research... (Read 1630 times)

Dowding · « **on:** January 28, 2004, 03:43:46 AM »

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3432531.stm

Wouldn't want to wish ill on anyone, but it would be ironic if one these fools contracted Alzheimer's in their later years. I simply love how the spokespeople, with not a single post-grad qualification or experience in the field, deem a whole science to be 'meaningless'.

SunTracker · « **Reply #1 on:** January 28, 2004, 05:21:48 AM »

I see nothing wrong with a torture/death lab for some of the smartest animals in the world.

type_char · « **Reply #2 on:** January 28, 2004, 05:26:05 AM »

What exactly is the cost of animal research? So some monkeys die, big deal. The gains in science far out weigh the loss in the animal kingdom. Unless of course the programm is too expensive or something. I dont know Im just guessing. Better stop before I piss off PETA and they come get me.

Dowding · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2004, 06:13:06 AM »

The security costs for keeping out the animal rights heroes were deemed prohibitive.

Engine · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2004, 06:21:44 AM »

Alzheimer's wrecks families. It's worth the death of some monkies to eradicate it, and I fail to see how any other position can be justified.

SunTracker · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2004, 06:32:58 AM »

Wait a few years and a computer program will be able to figure it out. Just like the cancer-cure/smallpox program.

Dowding · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2004, 06:37:58 AM »

Yeah, silly me, I forgot about the cure for cancer announcement. Wasn't it hidden on page 56 of 'Nature'?

Saintaw · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2004, 06:42:16 AM »

Why don't they just do as everyone else does... relocate their labs to somewhere in eastern europe? No one's going to b*tch over there...

SunTracker · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2004, 07:20:51 AM »

Dont be surprised if you do see some cures for cancer in Nature. My University got a multi-million dollar grant for figuring out a way to treat a certain type of cancer with a plant hormone.

Pooh21 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2004, 07:27:38 AM »

Simple solution experiment on animal rights activists.

Dowding · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2004, 07:31:05 AM »

Vegitarian medicine? Are you suggesting that there will be no animal testing in the development of any drug using that hormone?

miko2d · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2004, 07:49:59 AM »

I believe in a decade Singapore will the world's foremost biotech recearch center and western recearch a pale resemblance or its current state.

When fundamental christians as well as the leftists of the western world slam down on the recearch in the most important areas - genetics, the Singapore government declared a hands-off zone. Stem sells, embrio, cloning, animal - nobody cares or gives a damn. Already quite a few prominent US and british researchers moved there to work on the projects that are impossible to conduct here. If it continues for a few years, they will have a solid research industry that will be impossible to dislodge.

And to speak realistically, once they come out with some treatment for degenerative desease or a recipes for gene-manipulation to create a designer babies, the westerners will eagerly buy them. They would not care whether the research was done on one of the stem cell lines not approved by Bush or a tortured monkey, etc.

miko

Tuomio · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2004, 08:12:45 AM »

Eventually babies will be manufactured with perfect abilities. And i dont see anything wrong with that, why should babies inherit their parents weaknesses and possible fatal gene combinations?

Dowding · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2004, 08:16:33 AM »

And what if there was some unexpected genetic throwback that suddenly activated 50 generations down the line? Backed into a genetic cul-de-sac the human race would come to an abrupt halt.

I'm for cautious development under the scrutiny of the public eye, with people doing overt, good, science.

myelo · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2004, 08:20:51 AM »

Pro vice-chancellor at Cambridge University, Professor Tony Minson, said the project would have been financially unviable even without the protesters, because of numerous delays and rising costs.