Why is the National Academy of Sciences discussing cloning?
The ongoing debate about the ethical, medical, social and scientific implications of human cloning is growing as more scientists announce plans to clone humans. The academy is gathering information from leading scientists in the field before it puts together a report on whether the US should impose a moratorium on human cloning. Which scientists will be there? The session likely to provoke the most media interest will discuss human cloning. The three speakers – Severino Antinori, the head of a thriving Rome-based chain of IVF clinics, Panayiotis Michael Zavos, who heads an organisation called The Andrology Institute, and Brigitte Boisselier of Clonaid, which sells itself as “the first human cloning company” – have all said they are planning human cloning experiments. Antinori and Zavos claim that they have the volunteers and the funding to begin human cloning trials in November. Clonaid, which was set up by a UFO-worshipping cult called the Raelians, say it plans to beat them in the ra
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