So Much For Us

It looks like Woo Suk Hwang made some valuable contributions to science after all. Good for him. However, if you're a guy, you should still hate him, because he's effectively made us obsolete:

Daley believes that the Hwang group generated parthenogenetic stem cells by accident, and didn't have the tools to conclusively determine what they had created... Parthenogenesis is a method of reproduction, common in plants and in some animals, in which the female can generate offspring without the contribution of a male.

(Emphasis mine). Now that humans no longer need sperm to reproduce, we males are going to have to keep a close eye on the females to ensure they aren't planning to kill all of us. I can imagine their thinking now: "Without males there would be less violent crime, sports would fade into oblivion, and George W. Bush wouldn't exist".

Hmm.. now I'm almost convincing myself...