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Along with the majority of department heads, some of Princeton's most famous faculty members have taught in the freshman seminar program, including Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, recent Harvard presidential candidate Amy Guttman '71 and the controversial ethicist and philosopher Peter Singer...
...Gutmann, an ethicist and former dean of the faculty at Princeton, represented an opportunity to appoint a woman to Harvard's top post for the first time...
...into dark woods with no paths and no easy way to turn back. Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly but has come out publicly against human cloning, was not trying to help sheep have genetically related children. "He was trying to help farmers produce genetically improved sheep," notes ethicist Erik Parens of the Hastings Center in New York state. "And surely that's how the technology will go with us too." Cloning, Parens says, "is not simply this isolated technique out there that a few deluded folks are going to avail themselves of, whether they think...
...ready to move quickly on cloning. In a TIME/CNN poll, 90% of respondents thought it was a bad idea to clone human beings. "Cloning right now looks like it's coming to us on a magic carpet, piloted by a cult leader, sold to whoever can afford it," says ethicist Caplan. "That makes people nervous...
...short answer to the cloning question," says ethicist Caplan, "is that anybody who clones somebody today should be arrested. It would be barbaric human experimentation. It would be killing fetuses and embryos for no purpose, none, except for curiosity. But if you can't agree that that's wrong to do, and if the media can't agree to condemn rather than gawk, that's a condemnation...