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...only because of this gross irresponsibility of The Crimson in printing this sort of personal attack on me that I would even bother to respond; I have learned over the years that Sack is someone who is willing to say just about anything, including outright and highly damaging falsehoods about others, in order to gain publicity and pursue his other ends. Responding to him, unfortunately, gives him more publicity...
...Senate Select Committee on Intelligence visibly stiffened, Sorensen went on to announce that he was withdrawing his nomination...He told TIME: '...[A] lot of dirty little streams flowed together to make this flood. There was the extreme right, the Kennedy haters, the Carter haters. The smoke-screen reasons--outright lies and falsehoods--masked the real opposition...
...hate them. Antisnowmobilers complain that the motorized sleds, with their primitive but powerful two-cycle engines, are loud, dirty and dangerous and that they intrude on quieter users of public lands. Most national parks tightly restrict their use; California's Yosemite and Montana's Glacier national parks prohibit them outright...
...anti-Semite. He said I was morally sloppy and intellectually tawdry. He called my 65 pages of endnotes bewildering, and he complained that I'd written, "Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew passions?" without attributing the phrase to playwright William Shakespeare. Goldhagen said I'd done outright fictionalization...
Whether they will or not is impossible to say. Even if governments ban human cloning outright, it will not be so easy to police what goes on in private laboratories that don't receive public money--or in pirate ones offshore. Years ago, Scottish scientists studying in vitro fertilization were subjected to such intense criticism that they took their work underground, continuing it in seclusion until they had the technology perfected. Presumably, human-cloning researchers could also do their work on the sly, emerging only when they succeed...