Word: cloninger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, the cost of cloning is prohibitive. Even if we master the art of copying over favorite people, it will never be an efficient way of producing human beings. As one scientist put it, "it's far too expensive and a lot less fun than the original method."
Yet cloning scares the living daylights out of us. Cloning for many marks the end of all hope for any universal standard that limits our behavior.
The truth is, we are afraid of cloning for very good reasons, but the possibility of human cloning is not really one of them. Wilmut touched a raw nerve in the public consciousness, but not because he threatens to duplicate people anytime in the near future.
We are still decades away from the prospect of creating human beings by injecting the DNA of a living person into an unfertilized egg. The challenges overcome by Dr. Wilmut pale in comparison to the obstacles presented by primates and people. Even optimistic scientists concede that creating Albert Einstein II...
When angry reporters ask about human cloning, they are really asking, "Is anything sacred anymore?"