Brigitte Says No DNA Test on Clone! SIREN! DRUDGE!

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[ConservativeMan55]

Second cloned baby to be born in Europe in next few days, Clonaid says 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

PARIS - The head of the company claiming to have created the world's first cloned human told French television Thursday that a second cloned baby would be born somewhere in Europe in the next few days.

Interviewed on France-2, Brigitte Boisselier said the child would be born "in Europe before Sunday." She declined to name the country.

Boisselier is chief executive of Clonaid, which is linked to a religious sect that believes space aliens created life on Earth. She is also a member of the sect, called the Raelians.

The company has so far refused to offer proof of the first cloned child, which they said was born last Thursday and nicknamed "Eve." Many experts have expressed skepticism.

Boisselier said DNA tests had not yet been conducted on the baby and that a decision on whether tests would be carried out at all would be made by the parents.

"The parents told me that they needed 48 hours to decide yes or no — if they would do them," Boisselier told France-2.

Company officials said earlier this week the baby went home with her mother Monday but have refused to say where home is. The mother has been identified only as a 31-year-old American.

"The parents have gone home and just want to have some peace and spend time with their child," she said.

Clonaid, which declines to reveal where its facilities are, was founded in the Bahamas in 1997 by the man who founded the Raelian religious sect. The man, Rael, says he learned about the origin of life on Earth from a visitor from outer space. He says he views cloning as a step toward reaching eternal life.

Clonaid retains philosophical but not economic ties to the Raelians, the company says.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Are these the guys that wear identical nike sneakers and wait for hale bop?

[ConservativeMan55]

Yep. These are the same guys. This is the same group and company that claimed they cloned a baby in 1974.

[canuck_conservative]

Red flags appearing already.

[Samurai_Jack]

Why does cloneaid sound so much like koolaid... isnt that scary enough?

[ConservativeMan55]

We need to find out how these guys voted in the last election. I'm sure they are stone cold kool-aid drinkers.

[MindBender26]

Major BS alert.

[Dog]

Wasn't it reported that a DNA test was done.....and we were waiting for the results to come back??

[Jumpmaster]

Brigitte looks like someone starved for attention that found a way to get it!

[ConservativeMan55]

Yahoo News is reporting that they have refused a DNA test.

[RightWhale]

This is the same group and company that claimed they cloned a baby in 1974.

Really? Nobody outside of a few botanists knew what a clone was then.

[solzhenitsyn]

I've doubted from the beginning that there was a chance in a thousand that those bozos in Halloween costumes had created the first human clone. Those weirdos and their UFO nonsense are straight out of the Saturday morning cartoons; they're not even bright enough to pull off a decent scam.

If they really did clone a human, it could be proven immediately through DNA testing (the original human and his or her clone would have identical DNA). If they're playing coy about DNA testing, I now doubt that there's a one-in-a-million chance that the freaks are telling the truth.

[ConservativeMan55]

[Dog]

Really....hmmmmmm

[Las Vegas Dave]

Then the cloning was not proved by scientific means!

[ALS]

RA-EL = SUN-GOD

aka Baal, Satan, you get the picture...

[ConservativeMan55]

This is the Washginton Post story about it. Click here.

[C210N]

Word is getting out on the identity of the baby:

It's Mini-Me

[canuck_conservative]

#13 -

C'mon, that's not fair. She actually looks OK in that picture. Whereas some of the more RECENT pix....well....

[ConservativeMan55]

By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 31, 2002; Page A03 For all the speed with which science was progressing, virtually no one had thought it would happen so soon. Yet there it was in huge block letters on the front page of the New York Post: The world's first human clone had been born. The next day, The Washington Post and other newspapers across the country ran with the story about the rogue scientists who had cloned a human on an undisclosed island. A spokesman connected to the effort refused to identify the infant, citing a desire to "protect the child from harmful publicity." Legislators quickly called for a ban on human cloning. And just as immediately came warnings that such a ban might choke off medically promising research. December 2002? Try March 1978. Indeed, when representatives of the Raelians, an extraterrestrial-worshipping religious group, announced last week that they had created the world's first human clone, their claim was itself a clone of sorts -- a clone of a very similar claim made a quarter century ago, and one that ultimately proved to be a hoax. It took three months in 1978 for scientists to pick apart the science behind that purported achievement, and three years before a court definitively declared the claim to be fraudulent. Now, with the availability of modern DNA fingerprinting, it should take just a few days for scientists to determine whether the alleged clone is indeed a genetic replica of her mother. But there is still room for error in the testing process, and even more room for mischief, scientists warned. If the radical claim of human cloning is to be believed, experts said, it will be important that every detail about how the testing was done be made open to outside scientific scrutiny. This is an excerpt. Click here for full story.