The host is clearly a media whore, but it's not unbearable. The docu is full of very striking imagery and interesting original footage of living "human mutants". The science is solid and recent (the host is a prof).

Second episode is the most impressive. There's a memorable sequence in which the host, Leroi, and a colleague development biologist watch a movie of Ditto the Two-faced Pig stumbling on its feet because it was getting confused by its third eye: they crack open with laughs. It's a bit disturbing (and they show signs of embarrassment themselves), but it's also common for true researchers in those fields (and for most of us I guess) to have a somewhat, erm, casual attitude toward the animals they use for experimenting and it's not common to see it shown with such sincerity on a docu.

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damn,
some of you guys just keep 'em coming.

This is a fantastic share.

Great release....can't wait to watch this one

Third episode is possibly the weakest. Leroi recaps his views on race and beauty, which aren't exactly groundbreaking.

He stirred up a good debate on the race thing with a NYT op-ed some time ago. Both his article ("A Family Tree in Every Gene") and responses from critics can be found in this good site:

http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/

Leroi's not racist, clearly: he thinks everybody is more or less an inextricable tangle of different ancestral constituents. But so, it's not clear what good a reintroduction of "race" as a biological category could make, when by his own admission it doesn't categoryze anything apart some vague intuition that people are really different and at the same time not unique (possibly the only good that may come from a rehabilitation of the "race" word in science would be to openly identify racist research efforts, which are clearly still happening under a host of different and impenetrable euphemisms).

Was listening to a Radio show on just that subject earlier today...Where now you can predetermine your offspring and basically cook your own baby the way you want it....eugenics was something the Nazi's played about with and seems that the research is still continuing to this day.Not sure how I really feel about it myself...a lot of people want to bring religion into the issue calling the researchers "Playing God"or what have you..I can see both sides of the coin....you are going to have all these self absorbed yuppie types making little mini-me's custom ordered but on the other side....if you are able to do away with such birth defects such as downs syndrome among a host of other nasty conditions and diseases it is hard for me to see the wrong in it.Of course if you did away with all of them then there would be nothing to make a docu on like this case in point where I can get pie eyed and roll in laughter over the misfortunes of others

Yeah, I know...I am all fucked up in my thinking...you should hear my views on illegal immigration

No, please, let's stay friends

Anyway, I've little problems with any idea as long as it's honest and avoid hypocrisy. So I prefer if one says bluntly that (s)he wants to machine-gun the illegal immigrants dangling on the barbed-wire they've festooned his/her country shores/borders with, than buildings concentration and torture camps and calling them "temporary permanence centres" or similar inept euphemisms (pretty popular at the european level).

It goes without saying that if you machine-gun immigrants at the borders, a minority of them could get fucked up in their thinking too and start planting bombs in the public transportation system or smashing airplanes against critical infrastructure. Then we'll see who will win, but I'd bet on the worst, stupider, most bestial contender (whoever it will be at the moment) (only serious)

Ah, i've seen humans that look like this... the small pink human variety is quite common amongst the farm dwelling types. Although the two headed variety not so much...

I am wondering if it eats twice as much as a normal pig would.

Trep, how shall I say?