anna-banana wrote:
Ishmael wrote:
Yes, that's right - I'm experimenting in cloning. I'm in Australia; what do you expect?
if I ever become filthy rich you can count on some funds.
Even in a secular nation like Australia, religious paranoia over cloning has made it almost taboo - though legal here, thankfully, political and corporate bodies want little to do with the "bad mojo" assosciated with cloning, so funding for this type of work is hard to come by, especially for independents. For some reason, they think it means cloning whole people with identical memories!! In truth; cloning of individual organs outside of a host, resurrection of extinct species, etc.
But, like with stem cell research, people would rather cling to some flimsy moral highground to secure another term in office/consumer purchases, than to see a paraplegic walk, or Tasmanian tigers alive and abundant.
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Oh, well, fancy that! Isn't that neat, eh?