2 items re ANDi - first relates to democratic denial and genetic technologies:

QOD: "Despite the complacency displayed by both the political and scientific establishments in regard to the genetics revolution, this has all the appearance of being a question that is not only new but also momentous. It is surely a question about which  everyone should be invited to have a say." - Prof Alan Holland
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The Guardian (London) January 16, 2001 SECTION: Guardian Leader Pages, Pg. 23

So Simon Fishel thinks we should attack the errors in our blueprint'. It's just as well that the same idea did not occur to some paramecium back in time. Otherwise evolution, driven by chance variation and error, would not have occurred. What Fishel proposes raises the question of whether we are to continue as a naturally evolving species, or begin the process of 'self-domestication'. Despite the complacency displayed by both the political and scientific establishments in regard to the genetics revolution, this has all the appearance of being a question that is not only new but also momentous. It is surely a question about which  everyone should be invited to have a say.

Prof Alan Holland Lancaster University
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I am a primate specialist and would like to express my dismay. Laboratory animal studies produce unreliable results. It is bad science to attempt to extrapolate the results of an animal test into humans. Furthermore, there is no conclusive proof that even cloned animals respond in the same way to identical treatment. If the money spent on bringing this helpless primate into the world had been used for scientifically based non- animal studies (in vitro, clinical and genetic research, computer modelling and epidemiology) there would be a far greater chance of success. This development creates more suffering - the monkey's and ours.

Stephen Brend International Primate Protection League UK This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.