Others are trying to use science to overcome the yuck factor.
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Beyond the yuck factor, however, there are real, physiological objections to such "xenotransplantation".
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But for that to happen, many will have to get over the "yuck" factor.
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"There is a yuck factor here," said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at New York University.
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But for many of us who didn't grow up on natto, there is a certain yuck factor.
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As the procedures became more common, people saw the utility of such surgeries and the "yuck" factor diminished.
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Constant novelty seems to outweigh the "yuck" factor of wearing something that rubbed against someone else's skin not long ago.
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How might your answers to these questions help to explain the "yuck factor" named in the headline of today's article?
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It's a complex problem — with a significant yuck factor — and I found myself wishing for a whole spinoff documentary about toilets.
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They want to overcome what one speaker called the "yuck factor," a feeling shared by many in the United States and other developed countries.
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And Warren's proposed wealth tax, which would levy a charge on people with more than $50 million in assets, retains its yuck factor among Silicon Valley billionaires.
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"We had this concern that it would be difficult to recruit people because there's a certain yuck factor with having to take a poop pill," Dr. Yu said.
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Some specific applications of IVG—including, most definitely, any attempts to produce "one parent" children—would undoubtedly trigger the "yuck factor" that has always greeted developments in reproductive technology.
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So I think it's not actually for the yuck factor, it's more like looking at the diversity and beauty of food and how bacteria helps us to produce them.
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Perhaps pandering to viewers who these days expect a higher yuck factor, this new iteration is more gruesome yet much less scary, its sleekness and efficiency poor substitutes for foreboding.
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While Stu doesn't have the yuck-factor of old man getting a blow job on the street, or an assaultive "regular" customer, there is still something distinctively uncomfortable about the young man.
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He acknowledged the yuck factor of getting injected with a virus culled from sewage, but said that when someone has a truly terrible infection, they get over that psychological hurdle pretty fast.
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Though there is an obvious "yuck" factor to the idea of transplanting, say, pigs' kidneys into people now hooked up to dialysis machines, those facing death from kidney failure might not be so squeamish.
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Most American patients "would prefer a pill or something else without the yuck factor," said Dr. Ronald Sherman, a former professor of medicine at the University of California, Irvine, and director of the BioTherapeutics, Education and Research Foundation.
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Article of the Day Article: Despite the 'Yuck Factor,' Leeches Are Big in Russian Medicine Before Reading What do you know about leeches and how they have been used throughout the ages to treat various medical disorders and diseases?
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The transhumanist Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies criticizes bioconservatism as a form of "human racism" (more commonly known as speciesism), and as being motivated by a "yuck factor" that ignores individual freedoms.
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High yuck factor not necessarily good for us anymore The German Institute of Food Research in Potsdam found that intestinal bacteria can transform arbutin into hydroquinone, which creates an environment favorable for intestinal cancer.
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The wisdom of repugnance or "appeal to disgust", also known informally as the yuck factor, is the belief that an intuitive (or "deep-seated") negative response to some thing, idea, or practice should be interpreted as evidence for the intrinsically harmful or evil character of that thing. Furthermore, it refers to the notion that wisdom may manifest itself in feelings of disgust towards anything which lacks goodness or wisdom, though the feelings or the reasoning of such 'wisdom' may not be immediately explicable through reason.
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Many philosophers appeal to what is colloquially known as the yuck factor, or the belief that a widespread common negative intuition towards something is evidence that there is something morally wrong about it. This opposes Greene's conclusion that intuitions should not be expected to "perform well" or give us good ethical reasoning for some ethical problems. Leon Kass's Wisdom of Repugnance presents a prime example of a feelings-based response to an ethical dilemma. Kass attempts to make a case against human cloning on the basis of the widespread strong feelings of repugnance at cloning.
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Safari Pals packs include animal data on each card so that trump style games can be played in addition to other traditional game variations included Rummy, Quartets (card game) and Go Fish. The Royal Society of Chemistry has produced a pack of Visual Elements Trumps, using element data for play. Outset Media released a themed version for animal poop called "Dung Deck" where players can battle statistics for frequency, hardness, length, width, smelliness, and yuck factor of an animals' 'business'. There have been lots of other packs before Winning Moves UK took over.
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A different response comes from transhumanist personhood theorists who object to what they characterize as the anthropomorphobia fueling some criticisms of this research, which science fiction writer Isaac Asimov termed the "Frankenstein complex". For example, Woody Evans argues that, provided they are self-aware, human clones, human-animal chimeras and uplifted animals would all be unique persons deserving of respect, dignity, rights, responsibilities, and citizenship. They conclude that the coming ethical issue is not the creation of so-called monsters, but what they characterize as the "yuck factor" and "human-racism", that would judge and treat these creations as monstrous. At least one public interest organization, the U.S.-based Center for Genetics and Society, was formed, in 2001, with the specific goal of opposing transhumanist agendas that involve transgenerational modification of human biology, such as full-term human cloning and germinal choice technology.
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