Dolly Scientist Gets Human Cloning License

[dittohead not!]

It seems the same people who cloned a sheep now have permission to clone human embryos: (http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-britain-therapeutic-cloning,0,4934042.story)


LONDON - The scientist who attracted the world's attention by cloning Dolly the Sheep is about to take another major step for medical research: cloning human embryos and extracting stem cells to unravel the mysteries of muscle-wasting illnesses like Lou Gehrig's disease.

The experiments do not involve creating cloned babies, but the license has nonetheless stirred fresh controversy over the issue and prompted abortion foes and other biological conservatives to condemn the decision.

Rather interesting development, don't you think? Just where might these little experiments end?

[burntgorilla]

A cure for many diseases?

[Dangerrmouse]

America falling behind due to ignorant dogmatism in high places?

[Sidgaf]

They are not going to stop at embryos, after a while you know they are going full human and then we get :
The clones were created by Man.
They were created to make life easier on the Earth.
And then the day came when the clones decided to kill their masters.
It will be call "The Clone Wars".
The clones will win, humans will be destroyed. And they make George Lucas a god.

[burntgorilla]

I thought we were going to reach the Singularity and have computers take over? Or was it that we'd be taken over by grey goo?

[Ethos]

Scientists do not need anything as quaint as a "license" to create a human clone.

It will happen.

Ethos

[HAVOC451]

They are not going to stop at embryos, after a while you know they are going full human and then we get :
The clones were created by Man.
They were created to make life easier on the Earth.
And then the day came when the clones decided to kill their masters.
It will be call "The Clone Wars".
The clones will win, humans will be destroyed. And they make George Lucas a god.


It's all a Cylon trick.

[jamesrage]

They are not going to stop at embryos, after a while you know they are going full human and then we get :


You don't think scientist will push to clone an adult human?You don't think some will argue that clones are not really humans and therefore not entitled to the same protections as everyone else?If scientist can clone just organs then they should be allowed to,however they should not be allowed to clone whole humans and every precaution should be in place to ensure that they do not.

[lord tammerlain]

They are not going to stop at embryos, after a while you know they are going full human and then we get :
The clones were created by Man.
They were created to make life easier on the Earth.
And then the day came when the clones decided to kill their masters.
It will be call "The Clone Wars".
The clones will win, humans will be destroyed. And they make George Lucas a god.

If you clone a human the clone is also a human

[burntgorilla]

You don't think scientist will push to clone an adult human?You don't think some will argue that clones are not really humans and therefore not entitled to the same protections as everyone else?

Probably. Some people still have issues with the idea that gay people have the same rights, after all.

[Groucho]

Some people seem to think that cloning means that out of nowhere, a double of you at your current age will exist.

[bowerbird]

:lol: A clone will have all the rights of a "normal" human - after all clones already exist. They are called identical twins