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Professor Thomas Baldwin, a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences working group that produced the report, said the possibility of humanised apes should be taken seriously.

“The fear is that if you start putting very large numbers of human brain cells into the brains of primates suddenly you might transform the primate into something that has some of the capacities that we regard as distinctively human.. speech, or other ways of being able to manipulate or relate to us,” he told a news briefing in London.

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It appears the lizard people have already done this in that square called the District of Columbia.

SouthernGent on July 26, 2011 at 10:04 PM

Simple solution: Don’t disarm the people.

Problem solved. Where’s my Nobel prize and million dollars?

NotCoach on July 26, 2011 at 10:09 PM


“If it’s heading in that direction, red lights start flashing,” said Prof Baldwin. “You really do not want to go down that road.”

Yet we just keep chuggin’ right along to Skynet.

Tony737 on July 26, 2011 at 10:16 PM

No need to panic, the zombie apocalypse will take care of them.

And us.

Rebar on July 26, 2011 at 10:18 PM

How far is the Telegraph from reporting on bat boy at this point?

jhffmn on July 26, 2011 at 10:27 PM

I don’t care how smart you make apes, if they can’t pick up and use a gun they lose.

thphilli on July 26, 2011 at 10:40 PM

From the comments section:

what exactly is the concern here? that we might create a new form of intelligent life? personally i would find that to be a fascinating and worthwhile goal.

these people sound like such intellectual cowards. “red lights should start flashing”…”don’t want to go down that road”…yet they give no reason beyond their personal fear and disgust.

genetic engineering is just the next leap forward in evolution, improving on the freedom of genetic exchange offered by sex. bring on the ape-people, and for that matter the fish-people and the bird-people too!

I doubt anyone here saw this but the makers of the Matrix put out a DVD with short animation films covering topics in the Matrix films. In one short they had an origin story, how the world came to be dominated by machines and during the machine break away from humanity there were a few humans who fought for machine rights. There was a similar origin short for the movie Daybreakers. Again, liberals campaigned for vampire rights and eventually humans came to be enslaved by them.

At some point being open minded can get us killed.

Bill C on July 26, 2011 at 10:43 PM

My shotgun, pistol, and 30-06 says you lie.

Oil Can on July 26, 2011 at 10:43 PM

I wonder what the late, great Charlton Heston would say.

OldEnglish on July 26, 2011 at 11:12 PM

I wonder what the late, great Charlton Heston would say.

OldEnglish on July 26, 2011 at 11:12 PM

Washed up old actor responds

Shy Guy on July 26, 2011 at 11:20 PM

If the scientific community can do it (ie. get away with it) they will. And that’s world wide.

Coronagold on July 26, 2011 at 11:54 PM

Um. . . looks like the folks at the Telegraph became a little too cozy with the publicist for the upcoming PoA movie.

The “story” is pretty short on actual facts and a quick Google of the “scientists” named shows they have no relation to animal research. Professor Thomas Baldwin was a philosophy professor at the Univ. of York, but is no longer.

He appears to be working for the marketing firm promoting the movie.

Our layers of fact checkers at work once again.

Jason Coleman on July 27, 2011 at 1:29 AM

Get your filthy paws off my remote, you damned, dirty ape.

Extrafishy on July 27, 2011 at 5:43 AM