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Three Things Cloning Isn't
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bbd17b6a-dc25-4dc5-a437-96c406f44b57/84D5445F-E5DC-44B4-8DB7-1DF9BB0EC6A3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html" href="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.blog.speculist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html"><P>Rand Simberg does a nice job <A href="http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/009989.html#009989">deconstructing</A> of some rather nonsensical coverage emerging from the inevitable discussion of human cloning following the announcement of the ability to <A href="http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article3152325.ece">clone primates</A>. There is no shortage of naive and, yes, hysterical ideas about human cloning out there. We've spent some time responding to these in the past and now, as a public service, here's a quick summary of responses to the three most egregious (and yet popular) ideas that people have about cloning.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html"><P><STRONG>1. Cloning is not a human photocopier.</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html">A clone is a genetic duplicate of an organism. It is an identical twin to the original, delivered at some later date (or else we'd just call it a twin, not a clone) and -- presumably -- by a different mother</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html"><STRONG>2. Cloning is not growing armies in vats.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html"><P>There is a popular idea that clones are synthesized or manufactured human beings. They are not. To quote <A href="http://www.fightaging.org/archives/000114.php">myself</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.blog.speculist.com/img/B7BA1242-45FE-4A22-A4BE-CBC165E0882B" alt="jango.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/001552.html"><STRONG>3. Clones are not slaves</STRONG></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/84D5445F-E5DC-44B4-8DB7-1DF9BB0EC6A3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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