Posted on 01/03/2006 12:18:02 PM PST by doc30
The scissors come in three sizes; wee, not so wee and FRIGGIN HUGE!!!!
That's what I thought when I read the title! LOL! I thought it was an article by The Dixie Chicks.
I thought roosters did the cock-a-doodle-doo thang, not chickens........
Stupid article about stupid chickens who don't even know they're not roosters??
FMCDH(BITS)
All I can say is ,"Thank God Dan isn't Vice President now!"
First, birds don't have vocal cords. Mammals have vocal cords. Second, it seems the 'scientist' is pulling some embryonic cells from the brain region of quail embryos and injecting them into the developing brains of chicken embryos. THe quail feathers come from skin tissue embryo cells contaminating the sampling of the brain embryos. And I never thought I'd ever write a sentence describing the vivisection and fusion of embryo brains!
First, I know birds don't have vocal cords, but they do have an apparatus for making sounds and that apparatus is unique to each species, therefore chickens will not sound like quail unless this part of them changes also. The article did not state he used embryos, not that I recall anyway, and certainly nothing was said about stem cells. If they are already brain cells then the odds of them being unformed stem cells seems remote. If stem cells were not used then it is highly likely no quail DNA was incorporated into the chicken, if it wasn't then there would be no growing of quail feathers and no sounding like a quail, no matter how much the chicken wanted to.
Don't be so quick to be an asshole, it is bad for your health. I stand by my statement, this could very well be false research and nothing but BS, witness the Korean scientist and his human stem cell "research" that was all faked. If you have any more smart assed, facetious or patronizing remarks please feel free to express them.
Oh, yes, one more thing, the vocal apparatus of which I was speaking is called the syrinx and though it differs from the human Larnyx some scientists still refer to it as the "vocal chords" when speaking to laymen. Have a great day.
LOL!
In your first post, you sounded like an ignoramous. So I guess you decided to google a few things to sound impressive. But then again, you have a solid anti-science streak so I doubt if you even have the capacity to understand the article.
Science is not perfect, a lot of scientists fake research, many of them are liberals and have an agenda and like all liberals they tend to see the ends justifying the means. That does not mean that I am against science, I think it is great, but research into embryonic stem cells, human stem cells, has made very little, if any, progress and I doubt this mans research. He offers no proof.
Also I notice you didn't address the fact that the article didn't mention stem cells and decided to attack my intelligence because you lack an intelligent answer, you sound very much like a liberal to me, probably a liberal scientists to boot.
Fake any research lately? Have a good day(if that's possible for a sour jerk like you)
Yes, but how do they taste?
From the article:
They sprout black and brown quail-coloured feathers because the transplant includes cells that determine the skin and feather pigmentation.
After the surgery, the chickens hatch and grow for two weeks before their bodies reject the quail cells.
Sounds phony to me, could be he is doing what that Korean guy did, making phony evidence to get his name in the books.
I await replication in other labs.
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