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The second is that it is at least the thin end of the wedge.
It is not only the thin end of the wedge.
Is this just the thin end of the wedge?
There is also the thin end of the wedge argument.
People who call embryo research the thin end of the wedge are wrong.
Any reductions now could be the thin end of the wedge for the industry.
This is not merely the thin end of the wedge; you are taking the wedge and hammering it half-way in.
But surely the worst of all possible uses of the thin end of the wedge argument is that used today.