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Former ABC News science editor Michael A. Guillen late last month offered to test the claims of the Clonaid corporation that it had cloned a human baby. The company is associated with the “Raelians,” a cult whose leader believes he has communicated with extraterrestrials. Guillen offered to hire outside scientists to test whether the baby was, indeed, a clone. His very involvement, including an appearance with Clonaid’s chief Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, helped give the claims credence. Indeed, his imprimatur as an outside “expert” suddenly made...
After a media frenzy greeted the announcement, the scientific community dismissed the cloning as a publicity stunt to draw attention to a religious cult associated with Clonaid...
...cult, called the Raelians, whose spiritual leader founded Clonaid and whose members run the company, believes that the human race was cloned from a race of four-foot-tall aliens...
...Clonaid claims they are keeping the individuals’ identities and whereabouts secret to protect their privacy and shield them from anti-cloning activists...
Thomas Kaenzig, vice president of Clonaid and a spiritual guide of the Raelian movement, said that the company had been successful and that its discovery will help infertile or homosexual couples throughout the world...