1. To begin cloning people now, before even the most basic questions have been answered, is simply a waste of time and energy. 2. And then there is the question of actually cloning people. 3. Groups and individuals far outside the scientific mainstream make no secret that they want to clone people. 4. He predicts that the most talented people will be cloned and the least talented women will be hired to provide surrogate mother services. 5. He recalled testifying before Congress one day, along with a cult that believes scientists from another planet created life on Earth and says it will clone people. 6. Is it legal to clone people? 7. Moreover, he said, it is illegal in Britain to clone people. 8. People might be cloned without their knowledge or consent. 9. Scientists pooh-poohed it all as a hoax, but even at the time I hoped it was true because I thought there would be good reasons to clone people. 10. The Time magazine columnist Charles Krauthammer envisions a world in which headless people are cloned and stocked for spare body parts. |