Hybrid Embryos

PHILIPPA: Why do they keep calling things 'Frankenstein Science'?

SIMON: Eh?

PHILIPPA: Things like these new hybrid embryos they want to do. Why call it 'Frankenstein Science'?

SIMON: I suppose it’s because they take genes from one thing and splice them into another. And Frankenstein took bits from different bodies and stuck them together.

PHILIPPA: But gene splicing creates a new, viable form of life. Like with genetically modified crops. If you did what Frankenstein did and, for example, stuck bits of potato with bits of lamb and bits of onion, you wouldn’t have a genetically modified crop. You’d have a shepherd’s pie.

SIMON: I suppose...

PHILIPPA: Surely they should call it 'Dr. Moreau Science'?

SIMON: I guess so. why do you ask?

PHILIPPA: I was reading this article about how they're planning to put human genes into animal embryos to harvest stem cells.

SIMON: I read that too. Kind of worrying isn't it?

PHILIPPA: I'm just looking forward to seeing a minotaur in the maze at Hampton Court.

It's a passable idea, quite Dereck and Clive.

But the longish explanations, make it not very snappy.

I think I might be diluting the joke by inserting my hatred of the inaccuracy of the 'Frankenstein Science' soundbite.

Well you could do it as snappy rejoinders on fmaous movie scientist.

Frank N Furter science maybe?

phillaps 2nd and 3rd lines are very clunky. In the 2nd she repeats what she said in the 1st and in the 3rd she rambles (and no one says "for example" mid sentence)