tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post4130448276012929683..comments2007-04-17T01:17:19.760-07:00Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652wjs@wesleyjsmith.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-69322515612307166222007-04-17T01:17:00.000-07:002007-04-17T01:17:00.000-07:00<I>Human cloning, financed by taxpayers, is the ultimate goal, which, if successful, would then open many "opportunities" for experiments well beyond early embryos in Petri dishes.</I><BR/><BR/>Yeah, "cloning" isn't the final goal, and hardly anyone's interim goal, it's "genetic engineering", where the new person's genes are "improved" from the way they would have come out, but they aren't a clone of anyone. That's why the Brownback and the Feinstein-Hatch anti-cloning laws are useless: They only prohibit the strictist defintion of cloning using unmodified somatic cell nuclear transfer. The real ultimate goal is dna synthesis like portrayed in Gattaca, where the genes of new people are engineered from scratch to have some superficial traits of the parents laid on top of an FDA approved baseline generic healthy human.John Howardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15367755435877853172noreply@blogger.com