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RAT'S CREEPY: Scientists are implanting tiny HUMAN brains into rats
2017-11-09
[TheSun] TINY human brains injected into rats have sparked a major ethical debate among scientists worried it may give the rodents some type of human consciousness.

Esteemed science ethicists claim the experiments might reach a point where the test lab rats will be "entitled to some kind of respect".
Designer Democrat Pol's?
Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#11  I'd tell them using those new passenger pigeons which are fluent in 8 languages and brail.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2017-11-09 17:51  

#10  How shall I relay that I don't want them doing this kind of shit?
Posted by: newc   2017-11-09 17:33  

#9  Now law firms can fill their needs at the pet shop.
Posted by: Sloluting and Tenille8977   2017-11-09 15:25  

#8  Ben and Willard nod their approval
Posted by: Frank G   2017-11-09 14:36  

#7  Very flowery, Shipman.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-11-09 12:51  

#6  Algernons time has come again!
Posted by: Shipman   2017-11-09 12:46  

#5  RATS! Why not puppies?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-11-09 09:12  

#4  Would be interesting if they could implant tiny rat brains into humans.

Giving recent headlines one might think they already have.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-11-09 08:27  

#3  There was an early 1980’s children’s film based on a book of the same premise: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_of_NIMH

The trailer: https://youtu.be/WLE65PZ30tM

Posted by: Eltoroverde   2017-11-09 08:15  

#2  .."entitled to some kind of respect"... I was kind of expecting a pic of Rodney Dangerfield morphed as a rat.
Posted by: texhooey   2017-11-09 00:52  

#1  Would be interesting if they could implant tiny rat brains into humans.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196   2017-11-09 00:32  

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