The Aerie
Oh, great. It's bad enough that AIDS figures out how to hijack the human immune system, and that Nature has figured out how to kill us in this manner all by Herself.
Now scientists have figured out how to make a virus that bypasses the human immune system. The article touts the advantages this will offer to scientists experimenting on human genetics.
This strikes me as the king's wizard inventing a way for anybody to slip past the castle defenses and suggesting that it's merely a great way for deliverymen to reach the kitchens.
If they can invent (or "evolve") a virus to bypass the immune system, how hard would it be to evolve a lethal virus to bypass the immune system?
Then there's the story that scientists have managed to persuade sperm cells to turn into egg cells. Is this a good idea? If you try this on someone, and you don't get all his sperm cells, then won't he immediately become pregnant?
And then there's this entry from the "Well, DUH" file... "'Parents have more to worry about than other people do—that's the bottom line,' said Florida State University professor Robin Simon." Oh, really? No, you don't say! So you're saying that if I had nobody to worry about by myself and maybe my wife, and if our incomes both were split between saving for retirement and entertainment, that we'd have less worry? You don't say!
Of course, I think this survey is completely invalid because they obviously didn't interview any people in their Seventies and Eighties. I suspect the elderly with kids are less stressed than childless elderly. Of course, it does suggest that one maintain a good relationship with one's children...
Posted by Albatross at February 7, 2006 2:25 PM | TrackBack