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In 1974, another English scientist, Dr. Douglas Bevis, casually dropped an even bigger bombshell. Not only had human eggs been fertilized in the test tube, said Bevis, but they had been successfully implanted in three women who subsequently gave birth. It was widely suspected that he was talking about his...
Critical Storm. Bevis was beset by worry that a laboratory-conceived baby might be malformed, which his three were not, though it is too early to be sure of their mental capacity. Just where he performed his successful implants is unclear. In the storm of professional criticism that broke around...
Bevis reacted bitterly to his critics, although they were aiming not at his accomplishment but at the unprofessional manner of its disclosure, with no scientific data. The failure of so many implants was to be expected and therefore caused Bevis less anguish than his inability to explain the three successes...
Both Leeds University and St. James's Hospital, where he has treated patients, were willing to let him continue the work. But Bevis, declaring himself "fed up" with all the publicity-which he had not shunned before-announced: "I am certainly not going on with individual fertilization. I have...
Soon after Britain's Dr. Douglas Bevis (see story above) abruptly quit his work on fertilization-implantation techniques, eleven eminent U.S. investigators, including one Nobel laureate, Dr. James D. Watson, declared that they are halting certain experiments in genetic manipulation of bacteria. Their reason: fear that if they do...