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From: seb1@drutx.ATT.COM (Sharon Badian)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: The Ethics of Species Engineering ( WAS: Re: Human/Chimp Hybrids?)
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Date: 5 Oct 90 20:28:22 GMT
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Bryan Siegfried says:
> 	I must agree must agree with Pat.  While finding out what a human/
> chimp hybrid would be like would be interesting, I find the idea pretty
> abhorrent.  ...

This is pretty much what Stephan Jay Gould says. One of the most
interesting experiments we could do, but to his mind, absolutely
unethical (for much the same reasons that Bryan said).

So, ethics and science do meet in some scientists (and I consider
Stephan Jay Gould to be one of the best).

Sharon Badian
AT&T Bell Labs - Denver
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