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Article: SAFETY VOWS, SKEPTICISM OVER CLONING AT D.C. FORUM, SCIENTISTS SPAR ABOUT THE RISKS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 8, 2001
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WASHINGTON - Fertility specialists yesterday defended their plans
to conduct secretive experiments to create a cloned human, and
promised they would never endanger a patient's health in tests that
will begin this year.
But at a forum at the National Academy of Sciences that tended
more toward circus than science, their pledges were met skeptically
by the panel's prominent academics and doctors. They contended that
in animals, almost all the cloned offspring died or suffered obesity,
defective hearts, deformed kidneys and brains, and other
abnormalities that might be too subtle to detect.
In debates that degenerated into shouting matches and poured into
the halls, others voiced a litany of ...