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To: bentway who wrote (303374)6/29/2016 11:21:50 PM
From: Sun Tzu  Respond to of 542008
 
We're very close to creating human-animal hybrids to be used as organ donor farms for humans. After Orwell's 1984, I am worried that Wells' The Island of Doctor Moreau comes to pass too :-/

ST

PS In " The Limits of Individual Plasticity" (1895), Wells expounded upon his firm belief that the events depicted in The Island of Doctor Moreau are entirely possible should such vivisective experiments ever be tested outside the confines of science fiction.