2002-12-27

sdelmonte: (Default)
2002-12-27 02:43 pm

Send in the Clone, For Real?

And then the world, already strange, got stranger...

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=1967600
(Wherein a religious sect of the "aliens are our gods" variety claims to have produced the first human clone)

I don't know what is more disturbing: that a religious sect - cult is a better word - would be the first to try and create a human clone; or that the scientific world is now forced to deal with the remote possibility that a clone has been created and the greater likelihood that any cloning research, no matter how legitimate, has been tainted forever.