"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research -- human cloning in all its forms -- creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos."
"human-animal hybrids?" Banning the creation of these craven beasts will add yet another nail to the coffin to what WAS cutting edge American science.
Does anyone associated with science policy within the Bush administration pay attention to what happens at American research institutions? Do they know how absurd this is?
In the course of biomedical research, we generate thousands of transgenic animals -human/mouse- hybrids in order to study the effects of defective genes. Alternatively, we generate human/mouse hybrids in order to test the efficacy of anti-cancer drugs and other drugs that benefit human and animal kind.
Myself and thousands of my colleagues will be shutting down our labs. Legislation that bans the generation of "hybrids" will lead the prosecution of thousands upon thousands of scientists. I might as well be off to Singapore while the getting is good.