Comments for Public Ridicule http://publicridicule.com “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” -- Mark Twain Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:38:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Paging Dr. Moreau… by Brian Macker http://publicridicule.com/2008/05/19/paging-dr-moreau/#comment-80 Brian Macker Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:51:00 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/?p=104#comment-80 <i>"Though no one is proposing creating hybrid organisms from these embryos, that is the conclusion to which the anti-science lunatics jump."</i> Not true. PZ Myers proposed just that. This from the comment thread on his blog. "I am going to assume that everyone commenting on these threads is opposed to, and would support a legal ban on, the creation of a human-chimpanzee hybrid. A viable creature (the kind that David Barash has mused about), not an experimental culture or embryo." - <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/just_when_you_think_slimy_sal.php#comment-699958" rel="nofollow">Colugo</a> "Bad assumption. I would love to see the experiment done, but have two reservations. It has to be done right. I expect that the fetus would not come to term, which is boring, unless there is a thorough analysis to determine the developmental difficulties that led to the abortion. In case it does come to term, it has to be recognized as an individual with all rights, and it must have a family committed to raising it as a full member. No institutionalizing it and in essence discarding it. Those are hard criteria to meet. We don't currently have the technology to monitor a mammalian pregnancy with the kind of detail it would need, and it would take a lot of courage and commitment from the prospective parents." - <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/just_when_you_think_slimy_sal.php#comment-699958" rel="nofollow">Myers</a> This ignoring several comments pointing out how cruel it would be to his Dr. Moreau creature. Before his comment I had posted: "From a reasonable person test it is clear that existing as a human chimp hybrid could potentially be a terribly cruel fate. We do not have to be certain that an outcome will always endanger someone in order to outlaw it. The risk need only be credible." - <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/01/just_when_you_think_slimy_sal.php#comment-700047" rel="nofollow">Brian Macker</a> “Though no one is proposing creating hybrid organisms from these embryos, that is the conclusion to which the anti-science lunatics jump.”

Not true. PZ Myers proposed just that. This from the comment thread on his blog.

“I am going to assume that everyone commenting on these threads is opposed to, and would support a legal ban on, the creation of a human-chimpanzee hybrid. A viable creature (the kind that David Barash has mused about), not an experimental culture or embryo.” - Colugo

“Bad assumption.
I would love to see the experiment done, but have two reservations.

It has to be done right. I expect that the fetus would not come to term, which is boring, unless there is a thorough analysis to determine the developmental difficulties that led to the abortion.

In case it does come to term, it has to be recognized as an individual with all rights, and it must have a family committed to raising it as a full member. No institutionalizing it and in essence discarding it.

Those are hard criteria to meet. We don’t currently have the technology to monitor a mammalian pregnancy with the kind of detail it would need, and it would take a lot of courage and commitment from the prospective parents.” - Myers

This ignoring several comments pointing out how cruel it would be to his Dr. Moreau creature. Before his comment I had posted:

“From a reasonable person test it is clear that existing as a human chimp hybrid could potentially be a terribly cruel fate. We do not have to be certain that an outcome will always endanger someone in order to outlaw it. The risk need only be credible.” - Brian Macker

]]> Comment on PR’s Parade of Douchebags 3: 9/11 Conspiracists by Belasco http://publicridicule.com/2008/03/19/prs-parade-of-douchebags-iii-911-conspiracists/#comment-62 Belasco Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:55:49 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/2008/03/19/prs-parade-of-douchebags-iii-911-conspiracists/#comment-62 Did I strike a nerve, Ennis? Did I strike a nerve, Ennis?

]]> Comment on PR’s Parade of Douchebags 3: 9/11 Conspiracists by Benzyme http://publicridicule.com/2008/03/19/prs-parade-of-douchebags-iii-911-conspiracists/#comment-61 Benzyme Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:08:20 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/2008/03/19/prs-parade-of-douchebags-iii-911-conspiracists/#comment-61 "Welcome to the parade. Douchebags." good to be here. dipshit. “Welcome to the parade. Douchebags.”

good to be here. dipshit.

]]> Comment on The Great Celestial Hula-Hoopla by David http://publicridicule.com/2008/06/22/the-great-celestial-hula-hoopla/#comment-39 David Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:55:15 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/?p=109#comment-39 There is actually a site, teachthecontroversy.com as you claim in the text - I know, I built it. However, you link to a different site. Their t-shirts are cool - I'm going to contact them. Oh, and Ben Stein - couldn't agree more. See my rant about him on http://ignoranceoffsets.com There is actually a site, teachthecontroversy.com as you claim in the text - I know, I built it. However, you link to a different site. Their t-shirts are cool - I’m going to contact them. Oh, and Ben Stein - couldn’t agree more. See my rant about him on http://ignoranceoffsets.com

]]> Comment on Jack Thompson bidding to become Grand Marshall of the Parade of Douchebags by The Dude http://publicridicule.com/2008/05/04/jack-thompson-bidding-to-become-grand-marshall-of-the-parade-of-douchebags/#comment-31 The Dude Wed, 14 May 2008 00:57:55 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/?p=99#comment-31 'lasco, I know this guy from when I lived in Miami. Back when I didn't know he was a douche, just knew he was a lawyer, I asked him to do a favor for a friend of mine who was in a real bad way. She needed to get out of an abusive marriage and a friend suggested I talk to Thompson...that he was all religious and would be happy to help. Well, of course, it turned out he was all shades of an asshole about it. I guess he was too busy trying to have Pac-man banned or something. What a douche. Dude ‘lasco, I know this guy from when I lived in Miami. Back when I didn’t know he was a douche, just knew he was a lawyer, I asked him to do a favor for a friend of mine who was in a real bad way. She needed to get out of an abusive marriage and a friend suggested I talk to Thompson…that he was all religious and would be happy to help. Well, of course, it turned out he was all shades of an asshole about it. I guess he was too busy trying to have Pac-man banned or something. What a douche.

Dude

]]> Comment on Shitheels by Stewart http://publicridicule.com/2008/04/06/shitheels/#comment-22 Stewart Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:40:22 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/?p=72#comment-22 <strong>Stewart...</strong> You weave a web of lies! Lies I say.... Stewart…

You weave a web of lies! Lies I say….

]]> Comment on Sniper-gate by Sniper-gate | Hillary Clinton Chronicles http://publicridicule.com/2008/03/26/sniper-gate/#comment-13 Sniper-gate | Hillary Clinton Chronicles Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:37:49 +0000 http://publicridicule.com/2008/03/26/sniper-gate/#comment-13 [...] Public Ridicule - Where Schadenfreude reigns. added an interesting post on Sniper-gate [...] [...] Public Ridicule - Where Schadenfreude reigns. added an interesting post on Sniper-gate [...]

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