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Article: REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY.(Review)
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- Sojourners
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- March 1, 2000
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An entrepreneur's paradise ?
Critics of the scientific establishment, especially religious ones, are frequently dismissed as "Luddites" or "technophobes." What's the implication? That religious skeptics are woefully ignorant, or, even worse, downright superstitious when it comes to scientific research, and that the religious-based moral critique must not impede scientific advancement. Scientists, according to this fervent faith, know what's best.
Lori B. Andrews' The Clone Age: Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology demonstrates, however, that skeptics of science's innate beneficence have good reasons to sound the alarm when it comes to ...