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I wouldn’t expect the sensation retailers on the editorial board at New Scientist to get this.

Genetic Experiment Goes Horribly Right

PASADENA, CA—A grotesque and unsettling genetic experiment in which human corneal tissue was grown on the backs of naked mole rats has gone horribly, horribly right, sickened Caltech scientists announced Monday. “Never in our worst nightmares could we have foreseen the appalling success of this advantageous abomination,” head researcher Dr. Trevor Keller said of the phenomenal medical breakthrough, which could potentially treat those suffering from congenital blindness. “Oh the humanity! The benefit to humanity!” Keller said that mankind’s only hope is for his team to continue their research.

The abomination in question.

Larry Moran , suggested this pithless headline, “More evidence that Charles Darwin didn’t know everything there is to be known about evolution when he published his book in 1859.”

Black Stacey called it yellow journalism and even had problems with the relatively more sensible (to biologists at least) editorial inside. Something about how when a distinguished but old scientist says something is possible he’s usually right, and when he says something is impossible he’s usually wrong.