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Article: Cloning of human seen inevitable for various reasons.(BUSINESS TIMES)(TECHNOLOGY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 27, 2002
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Byline: Fred Reed, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
In the press one sees all manner of objections to cloning, such as that we don't know enough, it's against God's will, we would probably produce a lot of deformed children, it wouldn't work anyway, and so on.
For what it's worth let me give you a tech reporter's point of view. Some of it is (I hope informed) opinion.Some is just observation.
I'm on e-mail lists from places like the National Institutes of Health, have friends in the patent racket, and read a lot of technical stuff that most people don't. A lot is happening in fields like molecular biology, genetic manipulation, and what you might call ...