From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 11:27:16 MDT
On Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at 10:58 am, Christopher Whipple
wrote:
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,55043,00.html
>
> A new study on cloning shows more than ever it's probably a very bad
> idea to replicate human beings.
>
> The study, performed by researchers at the Whitehead Institute for
> Biomedical Research in Boston, found that cloning to create new
> animals will almost always create an abnormal creature.
This is my objection to cloning _at_this_time_. It doesn't work most
of the time. We hear the successes of a cloned animal, but don't hear
about dozens of deformed or aborted creatures that didn't clone
right. While we have more failures than successes, I think cloning
people should be off-limits. Any program to clone humans today is
pretty much guaranteed to produce failures and maybe birth defects.
We can wait until the technology is perfected. A single deformed
human clone would set back human cloning for decades.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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