Clear Thinking About Human Cloning.

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: Hines, Terence | Copyright information

Who's Afraid of Human Cloning? is the best thing Ire seen written about cloning since the birth of Dolly the cloned sheep in 1997. The vast majority of post-Dolly writing on cloning, especially in the nonscientific press, has been near-hysterical fear-mongering drivel. Typically, commentators trot out the worst possible, and most unlikely, horrors that they think (hope?) might grow out of successful human Cloning, such as being threatened with dozens of Hitlers (or Saddams, or whom...

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