The Natural Selection of Bad Science

Study warns that science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable

Proving yet again that entropy (principle of physics) supersedes the evolutionary claim of accumulation of beneficial features, including within "science" itself.

Who is to blame here? Just the Atheists who made Darwinist story telling into THE Science of all Sciences, akin to Physics if Physics were as cool as evolution.

Now that story-telling is all that is needed, science can produce pretty much any claim it wants to be true, create stories about it, and declare it to be True, scientifically speaking of course. Unfortunately that renders much of science to be logically absurd, and its practitioners to be trusted at the approximate level of politicians, child molesters and Atheists. (I'm sure there is a Venn diagram of that somewhere...).

Real Brains-in-a-Vat: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Dr. Mengele, call your office...

The human brains being grown OUTSIDE the body: Lab making miniature 'organs in a jar' is revealed

This will NOT stop here. The drive to be recognized as the first to produce some sort of achievement which will put their names in the textbooks will overcome any moral compunction which they might have, deep down.

"The goal for many researchers is to develop a brain exactly like a human's.

But some researchers say this would be a step too far.

Dr Martin Coath, from the Cognition Institute at the University of Plymouth, questioned why anyone would ever want to create a 'real' human brain.

'A human brain that was 'fully working' would be conscious, have hopes, dreams, feel pain, and would ask questions about what we were doing to it,' he said.

'Something we have grown in the lab, but on a much simpler level than a human brain, might be hooked up to electronic eyes, ears, and hands and be taught to do something - maybe something that is as sophisticated as many simple living creatures.

'That doesn't seem so far off to me.'"

There are other elements required for a living, cognitive brain, of course. Not the least of these is a fully connected and functioning vascular system. But that's not all that far behind, either.

The real missing element would be Life, which comes only from other life, as far as we know. Still, these brains are not made from scratch; they are made from living tissue.

"Ethics": This Was Inevitable

British scientist can genetically modify human embryos, ethics committee says

British "ethics" decisions have long been a study in Hegelian slippery slope modifications. Taking one step further into the abyss every year, the committee has abandoned all concepts of stability in ethics, and has slid steadily into the trade-offs of how many lives sacrificed might be balanced by the knowledge gained in their extinction. How does this vary from the Mengele approach? It is the same in kind, varying only in the age of the humans being sacrificed. The British are still at the embryonic stage so far. But what with the slope getting steeper every year, we can expect that to expand as they determine that other ages may be expendable in the search for knowledge. Unless it is stopped, it will expand exponentially. Government grants seem to do that.

The Science of Chimeras

Science is without any inherent morality. Even the medical injunction, "First, do no harm", does not apply. Big science, as all science is these days, requires a grounding in regulation, because it will not regulate itself, especially in an elitist culture which accepts no moral restrictions for itself. If the will to assert moral principles over DNA science does not exist, then the day of Dr. Mengele-science and Dr. Moreau-science, will rapidly emerge to become commonplace, and it will be defended by chimeric super-soldiers.

In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human

After the embryos have had their DNA edited this way, Ross creates another hole in the membrane so he can inject human induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS for short, into the pig embryos.

Like human embryonic stem cells, iPS cells can turn into any kind of cell or tissue in the body. The researchers' hope is that the human stem cells will take advantage of the void in the embryo to start forming a human pancreas.

Because iPS cells can be made from any adult's skin cells, any organs they form would match the patient who needs the transplant, vastly reducing the risk that the body would reject the new organ.

But for the embryo to develop and produce an organ, Ross has to put the chimera embryos into the wombs of adult pigs. That involves a surgical procedure, which is performed in a large operating room across the street from Ross's lab.
Pablo Ross of the University of California, Davis inserts human stem cells into a pig embryo as part of experiments to create chimeric embryos.

Pablo Ross of the University of California, Davis inserts human stem cells into a pig embryo as part of experiments to create chimeric embryos.
Rob Stein/NPR

The day Ross opened his lab to me, a surgical team was anesthetizing an adult female pig so surgeons could make an incision to get access to its uterus.

Ross then rushed over with a special syringe filled with chimera embryos. He injected 25 embryos into each side of the animal's uterus. The procedure took about an hour. He repeated the process on a second pig.

Every time Ross does this, he then waits a few weeks to allow the embryos to develop to their 28th day — a time when primitive structures such as organs start to form.

Ross then retrieves the chimeric embryos to dissect them so he can see what the human stem cells are doing inside. He examines whether the human stem cells have started to form a pancreas, and whether they have begun making any other types of tissues.

The uncertainty is part of what makes the work so controversial. Ross and other scientists conducting these experiments can't know exactly where the human stem cells will go. Ross hopes they'll only grow a human pancreas. But they could go elsewhere, such as to the brain.

"If you have pigs with partly human brains you would have animals that might actually have consciousness like a human," Newman says. "It might have human-type needs. We don't really know."

That possibility raises new questions about the morality of using the animals for experimentation. Another concern is that the stem cells could form human sperm and human eggs in the chimeras.

"If a male chimeric pig mated with a female chimeric pig, the result could be a human fetus developing in the uterus of that female chimera," Newman says. Another possibility is the animals could give birth to some kind of part-human, part-pig creature.

"One of the concerns that a lot of people have is that there's something sacrosanct about what it means to be human expressed in our DNA," says Jason Robert, a bioethicist at Arizona State University. "And that by inserting that into other animals and giving those other animals potentially some of the capacities of humans that this could be a kind of violation — a kind of, maybe, even a playing God."

Ross defends what his work. "I don't consider that we're playing God or even close to that," Ross says. "We're just trying to use the technologies that we have developed to improve peoples' life."