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August 1, 2005
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This weekend I review The Island. Saw it yesterday, and alas, it was pretty awful. However, it is unique in that it's the first science fiction film I've ever seen that explicitly comes right out in favor of the rights of the unborn. At one point there's a "product recall," and employees of Big Evil Corporate Cloning Man walk among the artificial wombs and destroy them. Some of the clear sacs of fluid get hacked to pieces and some get a drug injected into them that looks very much like saline solution (which is injected into the amniotic sac in certain abortion procedures). Subtle, no?
Thus it's a crazy coincidence that the ever-dispassionate, remarkable William Saletan came out with a series on arificial wombs and embryo harvesting this week. Anyone who wants to call themselves informed on the issues of cloning and use of humans for research owes it to themselves to read the articles. They are incredibly objective, but very reminiscent, to me, of Brave New World.
Posted by b-applegate at August 1, 2005 1:14 PM
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Saletan's series was excellent. He really allowed tbe scientists to hoist themselves by their own petard. What is a petard anyway?
Scary that so much of what we hear in the media is passed along from one source to the next, and morphs so much alonng the way. Like the kid's game where you pass a secret along, and it changes so much by the end.
This sounds like evil scientist stuff.
Posted by: Cherie at August 5, 2005 7:50 PM