Why Man Should Not Play God

Geeky scientists have been guffawing nasally and administering weak slaps on the back to each other this week after being given the go-ahead by the UK regulator to create human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes. They’ll be mashing together human and cow DNA, and teleporting them to the other side of the laboratory (or whatever it is they do) in order to make themselves some stem cells.

It’s a little-known fact that similar secret experiments were undertaken around forty years ago, though sadly the results were classified and have never been revealed. You can’t help but wonder though what the result would have been had the embryos been allowed to develop. Just what sort of hideous chimera or mutant beast would result? I suppose we’ll never know...