Apart from jokes about transplanting pig brains into brain-dead politicians to make them minimally sane, I don't see such news as something bad.
If a pig liver could help to temporarily support someone life in absence of insanely expensive and still rare blood-cleaning machine or black-market donor liver and give time to find proper and ethically acceptable donor, then why not?
Taking in account that even human liver transplant require shutting down patient immune system turning one into permanent suffering source of wealth for BigPharma, some pig transplants that will turn humans into half-pigs is definitely not something from close future we should care about. And it is definitely better than slaughtering other people in far away countries for donor organs.
If pig liver could be useful for humans in addition to fried liver cutlet or making pet food, that's not that bad. Even ethically it is nowhere near at human organ trafficking.
Or it is assumed that there should be some disgust induced because pigs are not cosher for some tribes?
Replacement of failed organs is far from ideal thing. I'm not shure we will have a techology of growing/replicating ideal new replacement organ from same patient cells in foreseeable future, especially taking in account BigPharma profits from supportive treatment after transplantation, which will not be necessary in case of native replacement. Proper and guaranteed non-invasive curing/restoring of failed organs even less probable in modern world.
But what happens when they excel in this? I mean, now it's external liver. Then they will find ways for an internal implant, then kidneys perhaps. Then before you know it we have half pig men walking around or maybe they end up implanting a human brain in a pig body.
If only they put 5% of that research money into proper diet and preserving people's functioning livers.
Just like machine. The difference is only that pigs liver cheaper than machine.
Then they will find ways for an internal implant, then kidneys perhaps.
The problems with human internal implants are far from resolving. Why do you think pig internal implants suddenly become a better thing?
Then before you know it we have half pig men walking around or maybe they end up implanting a human brain in a pig body.
I see a lot of people without any sign of brains at all. And looks like everybody OK with that.
If only they put 5% of that research money into proper diet and preserving people's functioning livers.
This. And finding a way to really cure people, not just treat them.
But in current reality, I don't see this attempt to find alternative way of supporting people with faulty organs as something bad.
If you want to know what I account as worst problem with modern medicine, then, it is complete absence of solid guarantees from medics for the work they do and absence of their personal responsibility for the results of their work.
Doctor is just a servicemen for your body. His job is to fix your body properly and once for all. Just like a job of any other serviceman. And just like any other serviceman every doctor should hold a personal responsibility for the quality of repair and any failures in fixing your body.
Turning the theory of human ancestry on its head, Dr Eugene McCarthy — one of the world’s leading authorities on hybridization in animals from the University of Georgia has suggested that humans didn’t evolve from just apes but was a backcross hybrid of a chimpanzee and pigs.
His hypothesis is based on the fact that though humans have many features in common with chimps, there are a lot more that don’t correspond to any other primates. He then suggests that there is only one animal in the animal kingdom that has all of the traits which distinguish humans from our primate cousins.
“What is this other animal that has all these traits? The answer is Sus scrofa – the ordinary pig” he says.
He explains: “Genetically, we’re close to chimpanzees, and yet we have many physical traits that distinguish us from chimpanzees. One fact, however, suggests the need for an open mind: as it turns out, many features that distinguish humans from chimpanzees also distinguish them from all other primates. Features found in human beings, but not in other primates, cannot be accounted for by hybridization of a primate with some other primate. If hybridization is to explain such features, the cross will have to be between a chimpanzee and a non-primate – an unusual, distant cross to create an unusual creature.”
Id rather hope were the hybrid offspring of aliens to be honest. The idea of alien dna flowing through me, and all of us, excites me for some odd reason.
The blood of gods....but who knows.... could be the blood of pigs.
Whats even worse? Perhaps pigs are results of genetic tinkering by our creators. Maybe jews are on to something when they dont eat pork, lol. I love these kinda conspiracies.
Do I actually believe them, no, but I love to keep a open mind about things. I do think aliens creating us explains all human religions though, which I like. Maybe I only want to believe for the simplicity, who knows.
Apart from jokes about transplanting pig brains into brain-dead politicians to make them minimally sane, I don't see such news as something bad.
If a pig liver could help to temporarily support someone life in absence of insanely expensive and still rare blood-cleaning machine or black-market donor liver and give time to find proper and ethically acceptable donor, then why not?
Taking in account that even human liver transplant require shutting down patient immune system turning one into permanent suffering source of wealth for BigPharma, some pig transplants that will turn humans into half-pigs is definitely not something from close future we should care about. And it is definitely better than slaughtering other people in far away countries for donor organs.
If pig liver could be useful for humans in addition to fried liver cutlet or making pet food, that's not that bad. Even ethically it is nowhere near at human organ trafficking.
Or it is assumed that there should be some disgust induced because pigs are not cosher for some tribes?
Replacement of failed organs is far from ideal thing. I'm not shure we will have a techology of growing/replicating ideal new replacement organ from same patient cells in foreseeable future, especially taking in account BigPharma profits from supportive treatment after transplantation, which will not be necessary in case of native replacement. Proper and guaranteed non-invasive curing/restoring of failed organs even less probable in modern world.
But what happens when they excel in this? I mean, now it's external liver. Then they will find ways for an internal implant, then kidneys perhaps. Then before you know it we have half pig men walking around or maybe they end up implanting a human brain in a pig body.
If only they put 5% of that research money into proper diet and preserving people's functioning livers.
Just like machine. The difference is only that pigs liver cheaper than machine.
The problems with human internal implants are far from resolving. Why do you think pig internal implants suddenly become a better thing?
I see a lot of people without any sign of brains at all. And looks like everybody OK with that.
This. And finding a way to really cure people, not just treat them.
But in current reality, I don't see this attempt to find alternative way of supporting people with faulty organs as something bad.
If you want to know what I account as worst problem with modern medicine, then, it is complete absence of solid guarantees from medics for the work they do and absence of their personal responsibility for the results of their work.
Doctor is just a servicemen for your body. His job is to fix your body properly and once for all. Just like a job of any other serviceman. And just like any other serviceman every doctor should hold a personal responsibility for the quality of repair and any failures in fixing your body.
That reminds me of seaquest where they talk about how they cut down the rainforests.
https://seaquest-dsv.fandom.com/wiki/Air_regeneration_stations
This is how these fuckers really think too. Like halogenated hydrocarbons, we will worry about the consequences later, technology will save us!
Just like with mareks vaccines for chickens.
Well just keep developing stronger vaccines!
These mad lads are betting everything in technology and they do not care at all about the consequences.
Anytime I hear about pig and human parts though, I cant help and think.
Obligatory, we could be pig men. God I hope not.
https://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html
Doesnt actually mention pig in his website lol, but pretty sure its the same person.
https://www.soulask.com/geneticist-thinks-man-evolved-pig-chimp-hybrid/
Id rather hope were the hybrid offspring of aliens to be honest. The idea of alien dna flowing through me, and all of us, excites me for some odd reason.
The blood of gods....but who knows.... could be the blood of pigs.
Whats even worse? Perhaps pigs are results of genetic tinkering by our creators. Maybe jews are on to something when they dont eat pork, lol. I love these kinda conspiracies.
Do I actually believe them, no, but I love to keep a open mind about things. I do think aliens creating us explains all human religions though, which I like. Maybe I only want to believe for the simplicity, who knows.
Thanks for the "insights" :D Humans are not going to look the same for me any longer :D
They have already tried implanting a pig heart in a human. It didn’t turn out well
https://communities.win/c/ConsumeProduct/p/141YDtobYc/consume-pig-heart/c
For now.. but what happens 50 years from now with more advancements and attempts? That is, if society continues to function the same way it does now.