Cute Lies

There’s a buzz in the blogsphere at the moment about a forthcoming documentary that purports to show animal foetuses developing in the womb. There are some cute pictures floating around, which seem to have been untimely ripped from Cute Overload. Er, but hang on, what’s this "representations using ‘computer graphics’" all about? You mean that real life is not quite as cute and in such sharp focus? Real life is in fact messy and slimy and murky in the womb? And the womb isn’t the big space that all the cute foetuses have such a grand time swimming about in? Yes, Virginia, real life isn’t quite like that. Get used to it. It has its own attractions, but lying about it doesn’t improve it.