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The intersection of his need for financial resources, his psychiatric expertise and creative talent produced the novel Creator, which not only sold well but garnered numerous critical accolades for its tale of a man who attempts to resurrect his dead wife via cloning, only to fall in love with the...
The Massachusetts legislature recently stripped a provision declaring the state’s support for stem cell research from an economic stimulus bill passed last fall. Pro-life groups and lobbyists for the Catholic Church engineered the move—falsely equating therapeutic cloning with abortion.
But therapeutic cloning, which destroys embryos consisting of no more than a few cells, is a fundamentally different process from abortion. Therapeutic cloning happens in the lab, not in the womb. Whereas opponents of stem cell research see life in a few cells smeared in a petri dish, we see...
At the climax another critic quipped, “I didn’t see that coming,” eliciting laughter and applause from the audience; everyone saw every surprise far in advance. As the boy grows into a cartoonish overdramatization of “pure evil,?...
Robert De Niro has the film’s sole intriguing roll: the personification of mixing God and science. His character, Dr. Wells, tampers with ethics and morality through cloning, supposedly demonstrating the unpredictable and malevolent ends that can come from disregarding the laws of nature. Even though the movie...