Genetic Scientists Create 12-Headed Jellyfish

The conspiracy theories are laughable. Nowhere in the article did I see that these were government funded scientists. And nowhere does it say that they are scientists working on a cure for aids or cancer. Listen idiots the sky is not falling and there are a lot of different types of scientist and they specialize in various types of research. These are probably genetic engineering or ocean life scientists and are not doing these experiments as they take a break from inventing a conspiracy run treatment for cancer and aids and not a cure. Simple minded people have simple minded fears. I didn't realize that this global conspiracy existed where all lab scientists are exactly the same, working off govt. grant money and all working together to not find a cure for Aids because they all have no conscience and answer only to pharmaceutical companies. What imagination. What asinine fear of what people don't know or understand.

WOW. Well arent we glad that our hard earned tax money is going towards something as important as this?

Wow. Nobody clicked on the link, hm?

The study was performed in Germany at the University of Hanover.

Apparently y'all also haven't heard of learning about gene manipulation by animal experimentation prior to human experimentation. Turning off bits of RNA in jellyfish may lead to eventually turning off cancer genes. But that'd be a waste of your hard-earned money too, I'm sure.

I believe that any creativity should be rewarded, these people may not have found the cure to cancer, however, in doing something out of the ordinary, it is much more likely that they will stumble upon something greater. If society looses the ability to be creative, then nothing great will ever occur again. So let these people be creative and discover things that no one else would've done!

great... what's next, PETA? or PETJ?

Did anyone stop to think that through these experiments, these scientists could actually have found a way to help people? If they can grow heads on a Jellyfish, why not a human body part? They already can grow human tissue. These experiments could lead to replacement organs, etc.

why ya'll getting so worked up about? everyone knows "jellyfish don't have heads".there like little mushrooms that swim.some ones just preping ya'll for the big shocker thats comming.

The "people in D.C. and scientists" do want to find cures to things like cancer and aids because they are susceptible to these diseases and viruses just like the rest of us. The "people in D.C." are still humans (as greedy as some of them may be) and therefore they want a cure for cancer just like the rest of us. If their parents or them are diagnosed with cancer they are going to wantr a cure not just treatments. Although it is true that these treatments do make a lot of money, it is bullshit when people claim that scientists and the government agencies that fund them are purposefully trying to find only treatments and not cures.

That poor thing is gonna get teased so bad when it goes to school.

I'm happy that scientist are working on the Intelligent Design Theory!

(...these experiments may shed some light on how natural colonies of other multi-headed organisms first originated on Earth)

This research has something to do with "Efficiency". They want it to be more energy efficiency. Instead of having us to be stung by 12 jellyfishes here and there at one time (hardly), it makes more sense and pracical to the scientists to have us being stung by one twelve-head j-fishes.

People act like the choice was between a cure for cancer and this jellyfish experiment. The truth is a "silver bullet" cure for cancer is highly unlikely. There are dozens of forms of cancer which all behave differently. How spoiled are you people? You demand full cures from science instead of just life saving treatments, meanwhile you demand to cut science funding while it makes up a shamefully small percentage of GDP. If you want a cure for cancer, give scientists all the funding they need, don't complain about "waste" whenever you don't understand the purpose of an experiment.

Yeah, but can they make a three-arsed monkey?

have to agree with kev. Cures come in steps not out of thin air. Keep crying about it, its nice and useless