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...science circus comes to town when a group like the Raelians claims to be cloning children, announcing one arrival just in time to fill the holiday news vacuum. The news came as a shock but not much of a surprise. It was only a matter of time before one of the teams racing to produce the first human clone either succeeded or just decided to claim it had. Chemist Brigitte Boisselier, president of the biotech company Clonaid, is a member of the Order of Angels of the Raelian religious cult, whose prophet Rael says 4-ft.-tall green space aliens...
...Guillen do it? Probably not because he thought the story was true. Guillen—who was once a teaching fellow at Harvard—should know better. The claim by Boisselier that Clonaid had produced a human clone is about as believable as the Raelians’ previous pronouncements that its leader communicated with extraterrestrials. The company had no prior experience with cloning, and the published literature shows that success in cloning mammals is extremely rare. Cloning a human requires using genetic information stored in a mature cell from an adult. But such cells, which are specialized for specific...
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...
Randi said that Guillen lacks the necessary experience in double-blind trials to adequately test the clone...
After initial optimism about Clonaid’s work when first picked, Guillen on Monday expressed doubts after the company failed to provide access to the clone...