Tom Toles for August 18, 2002
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Scientist: Wait! Maybe now is the time for that long-awaited debate about the ethics of cross-species experiments. Nah. Female scientist: The gene we've foreseen is on chromosone nineteen. Male scientist: I think she's got it! Female scientist: Why would you want a talking mouse? Male scientist: Could be money in it. Pig: Daddy! Mouse: I want a vasectomy. Scientist: Government wouldn't fund that. Science News. Scientists have now succeeded in growing pig sperm in the backs of lab mice. Meanwhile... Other scientists have found the gene that produced language in humans. Naturally, the next step is to insert the gene into, yes, a mouse to see if it will talk. And if animals could talk, what would they say?