Scientific Ethics

[Troy.McClure]

What do ye think the important issues are from an ethical, medical,*legal and research perspective when scientests get cracking?

Just wondering, Im liberal enough but not quite the abortionest that Bush makes some scientests out to be

[Peadar]

What do ye think the important issues are from an ethical, medical,*legal and research perspective when scientests get cracking?

I think Stem Cell research could be very important for treatment of organ failure and various diseases but cloning a human is a step too far.

No doubt some crazy scientist out there would clone a team of Gary Breens. :D

[patsh]

Get cracking on what?

[pete]

..cloning a human is a step too far.


Yeah scientists shouldn't be allowed to clone combos of pigs & sheep or other animals either.

[Peadar]

combos of pigs & sheep.

Pork chops and lamb chops from the same animal! Sounds like a wonderful idea to me. :D

[Troy.McClure]

No doubt some crazy scientist out there would clone a team of Gary Breens. :D

:o :o :o

[Troy.McClure]

Come on lads, do my essay for me...em... I mean, what are yere opinions here :confused: :o

[pete]

Come on lads, do my essay for me...em... I mean, what are yere opinions here :confused: :o

Scientists are evil. When have they ever done anything good for mankind?

;)

[Troy.McClure]

Chemists made silicon chips so geeks could get jobs :cool:

[Gareth]

Scientific advances at the expense of the few for the benefit of the many. Is it justifible? If you could find a cure of cancer by killing 100 people, would that be acceptable price to pay? If 100 is acceptable then is 1000? I guess that is the view of people that find the use of embryo's in stem cell research is totally immoral and wrong. At what point if you allow human testing is it gone too far. Cloning is curious. You could clone a copy of yourself, put it in storage and use the material from that body to use for transplants etc etc. Basically a backup body is harvest. Gross yes, but who knows if cloning succeeds, to what use would we put the technology too. Clearly religiously its a hotbed of contraversy. Can you clone a soul or a spirit of a person?

Look at Einstein and the splitting of the atom. A scientific discovery of massive importance which was the reason two cities were wiped out to rubble within seconds...