@mangeurdenuage genetically engineered goats that have spider DNA so it produces web filaments in its milk, that is harvested to make police body armor.
@sun the gay frogs story wasn't as wacky back when it was a university researcher talking about it on democracy now, but infowars runs with it and suddenly it's a conspiracy theory.
@sun "further research is required" but if you're a researcher and try to do this, then monsanto et al will bully your employer and funding source into pulling their support. it will always be "unproven".
I never knew that Alex Jones was ranting about that like a televangelist. I learned about the spider goats thing from regular science news. Never knew it was considered a "conspiracy theory" til now. The gay frogs thing was funny though, but also had a pretty mundane explanation (atrazine herbicide).
But you can understand maybe some of the reasons people freak out about this stuff when research into that area (amongst other totally bazaar/psychopathic ideas) is directly intentionally funded by the DoD.
When I lived in Toronto I was part of a hacker/maker space where there's a group of folks dedicated to DIY bio hacking. It's becoming more common and accessible, which is both cool, and also a bit scary.