Word: cloninger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These divergent responses say something significant about how science is perceived in its own community and in the larger public arena. Human "cloning" is a concept that has been for so long solely in the realm of science fiction that it's hard for us to separate real possibilities from...
The sci-fi revulsion at cloning has continued to the present day. Even a show as technologically hip as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ran an episode where the crew of the Enterprise defended their individuality by destroying clones of themselves made from stolen tissue.
With such influences gnawing at the popular mind, it's hard for people to respond to the concept of cloning in a dispassionate way.
Unfortunately for would-be philosophers, none of these are questions not already raised by the existence of identical twins. Twins coexists peacefully without losing their identities or going insane. Cloning would only replicate a situation that already exists. One wonders what the protester photographed in Time with the sign "I...
The backlash against cloning, however, shows that such distinctions are less easily made by the general public. This is a telling sing of the state of modern science. As science more and more specialized, cutting-edge research recedes ever further from the understanding of the average person. Science seems to...