Skip to content
LPBN-Icon-v1 (1)
The Right Coast
A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network

Pregnant male rat study kindles bioethical debate in China

By Thomas A. Smith

The paper has been particularly hotly debated among scholars and the public in China, where it was recently among the top-trending subjects on the Chinese social-media platform Weibo. Some researchers in China fear that reckless biological experimentation could blemish the country s reputation.

via www.nature.com

You wouldn’t want to blemish the reputation of China with any reckless biological experimentation, by golly. Such as something that might kill millions of people, for example.