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# Say "No" to Moreau
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1675/
- Published: 2005-07-13T21:31:37.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-13T21:31:37.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Technology, #wpChunk

*Prison Fellowship* has run a nice and concise critique of chimeras. [Link](http://www.pfm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=16322&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> Even the magazine *Scientific American* says that some human-animal chimeras “disquietingly blur the line between species.” It notes that “no one knows what the consequences will be as the proportion of human cells in an animal increases.”

> One possible consequence is that this “intermingling of tissues could . . . make it easier for infectious animal diseases to move into humans. . . . This hopping of species barriers can be particularly devastating because the \[human\] immune systems . . . are so unprepared for them.” The list of pandemics thought to have originated in such “hopping” includes the 1918 flu pandemic that killed at least 40 million people, and HIV/AIDS.

> But even if the research were safe, we ought to be opposed it. The embryonic stem-cells needed to produce a chimera can come about only by destroying a human life. And the assault on the dignity of life will not stop there. What would be the moral status, for example, of the human-animal chimera? Would it be human or an animal? The temptation would be animal, of course. And as in Wells's novel, man's proclivity to view his fellow creatures as a means to his own ends is well-documented.