14 Comments:

• What a bunch of jerks. If they want to play god, do it on their relatives and friends. Not on a living intelligent creature with ability to show emotion and many thing that we as man will never be able to do.

  By  Anonymous, at 7:31 PM, June 28, 2005  

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• Is this real or a hoax?

  By  Anonymous, at 8:40 PM, June 28, 2005  

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• Interesting thought... I agree with anonymous about these scientists being jerks. How come conservatives who are opposing to stem cell research are not against these experiemnts on live and intelligent animals? Or does it only work in case of human cells?

  By  Anonymous, at 3:15 PM, June 29, 2005  

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• Well, you have to remember, unlike embryonic stem cell research, this particular development at least focuses on restoring life, not killing an unborn. In that sense it's a good thing. Besides, the dogs are NOT undead, but alive, safe and sound too, without any defect of any sort, so really any concern for their welfare is a moot point.
  
  I should also point out that other medical scientists at the very same place are working on adult stem cells, which they declare to be just as beneficial as embryonic ones without the moral/immoral issues. Check it out at www.pitt.edu.

  By  Anonymous, at 3:57 PM, June 29, 2005  

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• Conservatives are not opposed to stem cell research, they are opposed to spending taxpayer dollars on it. They are of the opinion to lower taxes, and let Americans decide how they want to spend or donate their money.
  
  Otherwise, biotech firms and private organizations are free to conduct whatever research they want.

  By  Steve, at 4:13 PM, June 29, 2005  

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• Everyone is in such an uproar about Stem Cell research and now this undead dog issues. Why are we worrying so much about keeping things alive? Death is needed. Without it we will over populate the world. So far we are doing a good job at screwing it all up. Keeping people alive should be thrown on the backburner till we decide on we can do to keep the world alive.

  By  Anonymous, at 10:46 PM, June 29, 2005  

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• "Anonymous" - You needn't worry, plenty of people are needlessly dying in the current war we have going on (to "put a control on overpopulation...") >:( Meanwhile, while you may feel that "death is needed," I truly believe you'd sing a different tune if it were your child or loved one who was suffering from a terminal disease (i.e. CANCER). I have a very dear friend who is currently undergoing Autologous stem cell infusion, at the age of 38 (Autologous means he's using his OWN cells) for Hodgkin's Lymphoma (Cancer). I cannot fathom folks like my friend, or even younger people (with like possibilities), dying needlessly because people like YOU felt "death was needed." You sound like Scrooge...I'm quoting a line straight out of A Chrismas Carol. "Die...they'd better do it and decrease the surplus population." What about you, and your family? Apparently, You've never lost a close loved one!

  By  Dewey, at 11:19 PM, June 29, 2005  

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• For your information I have had a loved one die of terminal cancer. Currently the world is in its 6th major extinction. We are losing species at a faster rate than any other time before this. From what I gather you call me scrooge because I care about the thousands of species that will be extinct over the course of this mass extinction. But I mean who gives a shit about them its not like we need them to produce our oxygen or fix our nitrogen, so plants can grow faster.

  By  Anonymous, at 8:16 AM, June 30, 2005  

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• Deepest apologies & sympathy for your lost loved one. However, let me point out that the fuels, chemicals, pesticides & herbicides that some humans use on this planet are what is ravishing this earth (and ALL its inhabitants). I Do give a shit about the earth, but am NOT willing to let my friend die to save a few extra trees or animals. Sorry, Ain't gonna happen. I'm Not a religious person by any means, but All of our lives are pretty much mapped out for us (whether we like it or not). However, I will NOT sit idly by & allow cancer (thanks to Man-Made Agent Orange & other shit that humans thought they "needed" to apply to the earth)to kill my loved one (who served in the Gulf war and who was exposed to the crap), as long as there are ways to help save him. Additionally, if we keep using oil instead of cleaner fuels (i.e. Hydrogen fuel cells, etc.), then not only will we Not have air to breathe, but neither will the plants, animals, insects or anything else that helps produce our oxygen. Just some thoughts...

  By  Dewey, at 11:44 PM, June 30, 2005  

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• honestly there was only like a success rate of about 2/3. And the human research is going to be on trauma patients for whom nothing else can be done, therefore there is far more to lose than gain.
  
  It's all chryogenics really, far more than anything else. "Zombie" is entirely the wrong term for it. However I think it's cruel and sick to test it on otherwise perfectly healthy dogs when some of those that survived even suffered severe behavioral problems. Is that not a sign of at least some sort of brain damage?
  
  Maybe it just shows that the dogs are pissed that somebody decided to gamble their lives like that.

  By  Anonymous, at 8:44 PM, July 20, 2005  

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• My first instinct is to suspect that this is an elaborate hoax. But if in fact there is truth in this, I personally think that this would be an amazing idea. Just think of the implications of such an advancement. People with presently incurable illnesses or fatal injuries that cannot be fixed with today's technology, those people could be preserved until there is such technology that could fix them. And even in the article it mentioned people with impossible injuries could be frozen, fixed, and brought back. I am sorry for the dogs, but there have been much worse things done to animals through testing before (there was a case in which a hamster had a gland in its brain removed so that it could not realise when it was full and done eating). This is a comparatively humanely weird experiment. Really we have come so far that there are no easy tests left, everything will have a controversy and somebody is always going to get offended. What you have to think of is this, the dogs are back with the living, and because of this perhaps a child with a life threatening injury can be given a full life.

  By  Tiddlywinkz, at 7:44 AM, July 21, 2005  

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• im sorry , you all are idiots. the dogs are dead, they were not killed by the scientist. the dogs were brought in three hours dead, the scientist repaired them, and then brought them back to life

  By  Anonymous, at 9:14 AM, July 28, 2005  

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• I think this is a cool idea, if it really is true. It does bring to mind a certain anime I used to love called Blue Gender, where a teenage boy was diagnosed with an incurable disease (caused by 'B-cells') and was cryogenically frozen until a cure was developed several years later. However, when he woke up, the world was being ravaged by large, bloodthirsty, bug-like creatures dubbed 'Blue', supposedly as a defense mechanism of the Earth - i.e., it was getting so polluted by people that it released the Blue to wipe out the human population, preventing itself from being destroyed. The people, of course, would not accept this, and a spacestation called Second Earth was created to house the humans selected to combat the Blue, who were of course only the most fit, intelligent examples of their species. And the rest were left to die on Earth...

  By  Anonymous, at 11:32 AM, July 28, 2005  

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• i will volunteer my mother in law..

  By  Anonymous, at 11:32 AM, November 28, 2007  

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