Charles Kruthammer in “Of Headless Mice…and Men” starts by a Chicago physicist that is assembling a team to produce the first human clone occasioned yet another wave of Brave New World anxiety. But the scariest news of all was from the two labs one at the university of Texas and at the university of Bath. One group created headless mice; the other headless tadpoles. As they did there research they found out that they had no equal. Take the mice they deleted the embryo to produce the head and the mice instantly died. Then Texas researchers wanted to learn how genes determine embryo development. As you know you don’t have to be a genius to see the true utility of manufacturing headless creatures: for their organs-fully formed, perfectly useful, rip for plundering. Then he asks why should we be panicked? Because humans are next, it would almost certainly be possible to produce human bodies without a forebrain. ...
