From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 17:43:51 MST
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Ramez Naam wrote:
> From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky [mailto:sentience@pobox.com]
> > Ramez Naam wrote:
> > > People are probably going to pick up on this as a sign that
> > > cloning is not safe.
> >
> > It's *not* safe. If anyone is trying to clone humans at this
> > point, I blame the media's glamorization of cloning.
>
> I agree that safety hasn't been sufficiently well established to
> justify reproductive cloning of humans.
We have discussed this before and I have even posted concrete
references regarding the poor prospects for "natural" reproductive
vectors. Reproduction is an *iffy* pursuit (whether "natural"
or "cloned"). The situation with Dolly seems to rest on the
probability of lung infections for animals maintained in indoor pens
(certainly an unnatural situation). Dolly did provide natural
offspring and perhaps the attention should be focused on them
rather than her premature demise.
Robert
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