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Beware 'Planet of the Apes' experiments that could create sci-fi nightmare
Daily Mail ^ | 22nd July 2011 | David Derbyshire

Posted on 07/22/2011 12:20:53 PM PDT by presidio9

It sounds like something from a Hollywood science fiction film: a race that is half human, half ape.

But leading scientists are today demanding tough new rules to prevent the nightmare scenario becoming a reality.

In a hard-hitting report, they warn that research is close to pushing ‘ethical boundaries’ and that extreme attempts to give laboratory animals human attributes must be banned.

While talking chimpanzees and gun-toting gorillas are currently confined to movies, the academics say the dangers of disturbing animal-human experiments are real.

He added: ‘We are trying to get this out in the open before anything has happened.’

The Academy of Medical Scientists review was set up to look at the growing number of experiments

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Science
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1 posted on 07/22/2011 12:20:56 PM PDT by presidio9
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If these hybrids run amuck in Hollywood and stop the release of this horrid remake then I say it’s worth it!


2 posted on 07/22/2011 12:28:50 PM PDT by The Toll
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In a hard-hitting report, they warn that research is close to pushing ‘ethical boundaries’ and that extreme attempts to give laboratory animals human attributes must be banned.

When laboratory animals with human attributes are outlawed, only outlaws will have laboratory animals with human attributes!!!

3 posted on 07/22/2011 12:31:43 PM PDT by apillar
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To: The Toll
If these hybrids run amuck in Hollywood and stop the release of this horrid remake then I say it’s worth it!

If you're saying that the original nailed it, so the remake wasn't necessary (as was the case with the first installment of this series, the "Bad News Bears," and "Charlie & the Chocolate Factory"), I can't agree with you. "Planet of the Apes" with Charlie Heston was pretty close to perfect. Tim Burton ruins everything he gets his fat ugly hands on. That being said, the original "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" was so bad that even Roddy McDowell & Ricardo Monteblan couldn't hide their embarrassment completely.

I'm looking forward to this one.

5 posted on 07/22/2011 12:37:13 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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When laboratory animals with human attributes are outlawed, only outlaws will have laboratory animals with human attributes!!!

Let me rephrase that by omitting a couple of key words:

"When human attributes are outlawed, only outlaws will have human attributes!"

6 posted on 07/22/2011 12:39:17 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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7 posted on 07/22/2011 12:40:22 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Use FR as a platform to pimp your blog for hits!!!)
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I don’t know why scientists would even feel compelled to create humans with ape-like tendencies.

We already have plenty of those around.


8 posted on 07/22/2011 12:42:27 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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Conquest was AWFUL but still, it looks better than this one they have coming. That CGI is ridiculous.


9 posted on 07/22/2011 12:45:37 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: apillar
When laboratory animals with human attributes are outlawed, only outlaws will have laboratory animals with human attributes!!!


10 posted on 07/22/2011 12:50:25 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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Conquest was AWFUL but still, it looks better than this one they have coming. That CGI is ridiculous.

You're probably right, but I will still go, because I am a sucker. I did so with Tron and Thor and Iron Man, because I thought the better special effects would make a difference.

11 posted on 07/22/2011 12:54:27 PM PDT by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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We could use them to pick our lettuce.


12 posted on 07/22/2011 12:56:26 PM PDT by Gator113 (Palin 2012, period.....)
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Tron was pretty good! I’m going to like anything with Olivia Wilde in it though.

Best remake I’ve seen in a LONG time was True Grit hands down!


13 posted on 07/22/2011 1:01:53 PM PDT by The Toll
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To tell you the truth, I think a monkey overlord would run this place a whole lot better than Obama.


15 posted on 07/22/2011 1:03:22 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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These hybrids become smart enough to create Skynet.


16 posted on 07/22/2011 1:10:49 PM PDT by hattend (Its a matter of public record that I did not go to Harvard Law School, but I can add. - Sarah Palin)
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Now wait a minute, I thought he WAS...

nevermind.


17 posted on 07/22/2011 1:11:53 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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RE :”If you're saying that the original nailed it, so the remake wasn't necessary (as was the case with the first installment of this series, the “Bad News Bears,” and “Charlie & the Chocolate Factory”), I can't agree with you. “Planet of the Apes” with Charlie Heston was pretty close to perfect. Tim Burton ruins everything he gets his fat ugly hands on. That being said, the original “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes” was so bad that even Roddy McDowell & Ricardo Monteblan couldn't hide their embarrassment completely.

Don't forget ‘Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)’ where James Gregory as General Ursus says “The Only good human is a dead human”. In the BEHIND THE PLANET OF THE APES documentary Heston said he only agreed to be in that dumb sequel because the script said he would get to blow up the Earth at the end and then his character Taylor couldn't be brought back again for an even dumber movie. But Heston didn't know that Hollywood had long discovered Time Travel, remember 1960s Time Tunnel and The Time Machine??

Can an Ape become president?

19 posted on 07/22/2011 1:15:57 PM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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So why are YOU making the assumption that he was comparing a the first lady’s race with apes?

Don’t be a kneejerk liberal.


20 posted on 07/22/2011 1:17:19 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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