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Nature 414, 582 (6 December 2001) | doi:10.1038/414582a

Belief in our dominion is a backward step

Robert C. Fleck1

  1. Physical Sciences Department, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 600 S. Clyde Morris Blvd, Daytona Beach, Florida 32114, USA

It is disheartening to read your News item "Vatican approves use of animal transplants 'to benefit humans'" (Nature 413, 445; 2001). It is the rationale of the Pontifical Academy, rather than its approval of xenotransplantation, that is particularly worrisome.