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A controversial Harvard-educated physicist generated a new wave of hoopla in the scientific community last week when he announced his newest conception--cloning himself.
But TIME science correspondent Michael Lemonick points out that this shaggy dog story may go on and on. And on. Indeed, "it's silly," says Lemonick. "In the other cloning experiments they tried many times on many animals with many failures. In this case the chances are quite slim." Lemonick...
BREAKTHROUGH FOR CLONING
Your report on a reliable technique that results in clones that reproduce rapidly was insightful [SCIENCE, Aug. 3]. Human cloning, as you noted, "will happen anyway." Before it does, what ethicists must figure out is, Under what circumstances would human cloning be acceptable? As you noted, a human clone would...
Bodies grown for spare parts? Cloning NBA champs? Whoever is thinking about doing these things has got to be kidding! If this happens, human beings will ultimately lose their originality. After reading your article, I was relieved to know that cloned humans would not be exactly the same as their...