I started skimming part way through. The article didn't seem to offer much substance, just a few weak opinions restated a few times in different words.

Low points: "everyone is technically a hybrid" and that chimeras are created using "genetic manipulation".

> the ultimate benefit of teaching human beings their true nature

Lulz. Any hybrid would be seized upon by the normal racist peanut gallery and used to further existing racial discrimination, rather than being some kind of harmonizing panacea.

My guess is this sort of experimentation is pretty inevitable in various geographic regions where laws are loose, so rather than encouraging folks to do this we should probably focus more on trying to intellectually prepare them.

What does a talking chimpanzee mean for the world? Hopefully not a source of donor organs and rather a symbol that life in all its forms must be cherished and respected.

Isn't that how Planet of the Apes start?

Anyway, can't we make better models? I understand why having an entire organism is important, but we seem to be working rather well so far.

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The Soviets have tried this before - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ivanovich_Ivanov .

Just one year in the goulag should refresh this man's mind back to sanity.

Disagree++

(Summary, paraphrased: creating a new form of life, chimp hybrids, will prove the creationists wrong once and for all)

Umm.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions, apparently... And David P. Barash wants to become Satan.

No, it's NOT time to breed humanzees or Chimphumans and vindicate Alex Jones. It IS time to give legal protections to species that live in their own society and pass on culture and language through teaching and observation - sentient species like corvids, dolphins, apes and whales.

Stop trying to hide madness by cloaking it with the false pretense of intellectualism. David P. Barash should retire STAT.