What would CS Lewis have made of human-animal embryo hybrids?
I think we know:
‘many a mild-eyed scientist in pince-nez, many a popular dramatist, many an amateur philosopher in our midst, means in the long run just the same as the Nazi rulers of Germany. Traditional values are to be ‘debunked’ and mankind to be cut out into some fresh shape (…).’ (The Abolition of Man)
Quite literally, it would seem …
And then there is the Nuremberg Code, produced in the light of Nazi experiments on human beings. Was that designed just to protect the subject of the experiment, or was it designed to protect the experimenter as well? Click here for the code.
Posted by John Richardson
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