The Guardian: Animal-human hybrids and daft gov’t ministers
A look at the EuroScience.Net site, run by science journalism colleagues over there, brings to The Tracker’s attention a zesty commentary by The Guardian‘s science writer Alok Jha. The piece ran more than a week ago but is a departure from news writing so worth a look. It’s an exercise in disciplined rant with a nice lede: “You wonder sometimes if government ministers get special training to cling to the daftest ideas.” It’s about stubborn and special-interest-driven opposition to any form of animal-human hybrid embryos, including decidedly non-viable ones, in research. Such things, Jha writes in exasperation, “do not open up a Pandora’s box of hideous half-men, half-beasts.”
