A claim of human cloning? It's been done before
Posted on 01/01/2003 3:47:10 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
A claim of human cloning? It's been done before
'78 announcement was ruled a fraud; new case awaiting validation
01/01/2003
For all the speed with which science was progressing, virtually no one 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?
Nope. 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 a clone of sorts - a clone of a very similar claim made a quarter-century ago, which proved to be a hoax.
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I don't think the issue is whether humans can be cloned, but that it was way too soon to try human cloning given the problems they've run into with cloning animals. The cloned child may be in for a short, miserable life if these problems haven't been worked out, and that's what's scary. She and Antinori don't seem to understand that what's happened to the vast majority of cloned animals could also happen to the children they're making.
Please wait until the animal has all four paws clearly into the tar pit before running out there with your ropes and spears. If it sees you in time, it might get away.
I don't think the issue is whether humans can be cloned, but that it was way too soon to try human cloning given the problems they've run into with cloning animals. The cloned child may be in for a short, miserable life if these problems haven't been worked out, and that's what's scary. She and Antinori don't seem to understand that what's happened to the vast majority of cloned animals could also happen to the children they're making.Yep. That's what I've heard as well. With the problems they've experienced with cloning on animals, it's possible that a cloned human might look something like this after, say, 15 or 20 years?...
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