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...investment of human effort and technology in experiments to clone humans represents the worst type of scientific endeavor [SOCIETY, Feb. 19]. Why is it that Nature, in all its splendid manifestations, tends everywhere to spectacular diversity and mind-boggling detail, yet whenever we seek to copy it, we achieve only bleak standardization and stifling unity? Our scientific obsession with the cloning of spiritless matter will lead us to further spiritual impoverishment and predictable genetic disaster. MARTHE MULLER Cape Town...
...Cloning people as a fertility treatment strikes me as wrongheaded. Certainly the information in your article strongly suggests that a woman who has trouble getting pregnant through in-vitro fertilization will have no better luck if the embryo used is a clone. People who want a baby could consider adoption. Certainly there are more than enough orphans in this world who would benefit from having a family and a home. JAIME GARY BRAUN Naucalpan, Mexico...
Those who advocate human cloning seem to ignore the inherent wastefulness and disregard of human dignity that the process involves. I fail to comprehend the scientist who explains his work as a duty to help people who want to complete their life cycle by reproducing. Rather, the driving force behind scientists' efforts to clone is the commercial opportunity that feeds on the hopes of the pro-cloning people. I recommend that all involved have a good read of Brave New World and rethink their enthusiasm about human cloning. SABINA STILLER Oosterbeek, the Netherlands...
Among the hot topics at the conference was the recent announcement by a research group in Italy last week that they would attempt to clone humans...
According to Lee M. Silver, a professor of molecular biology at Princeton, the capability to clone and genetically engineer humans is closer ever...