Anyone who knows me already knows how I feel about Bush's stance on stem cell research. But I bet you've never heard me rant about the importance of human-animal hybrids - chimaeric research.

Oncomouse, anyone? Morquio Mouse? MPS I Dog? Down Mouse? These have all been incredibly useful tools, and some of them were created as human-animal hybrids.

From the post:

[Bush is] trusting that everyone will think he is banning monstrous crimes against nature, but what he's really doing is targeting the weak and the ill, blocking useful avenues of research that are specifically designed to help us understand human afflictions.

I don't know if he knows what he's doing and is trusting that no one else will, or if he's deluded. Doesn't really matter in the end, though,