Hwang Did Not Clone Embryos in 2004
So, Hwang has apparently never cloned any human embryos nor created cloned embryonic stem cells. But he did clone Snuppy the dog.
The stories about this fiasco are almost all being written as if it were a crushing blow for people with degenerative diseases. I can understand their disappointment, but it could be substantially mitigated if the media would report on the adult stem cell successes that are already beginning to do what cloning only hoped to begin doing in ten or twenty years. Their ongoing refusal to do so is a terrible indictment of the state of contemporary journalism.
posted by Wesley J. Smith @ 7:51 PM
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"But he did clone Snuppy the dog." Who says? Hwang said he'd cloned a human embryo and extracted stem cells. Hwang said he'd cloned and created eleven patient-specific stem-cell lines. Oh yeah Oh yeah Oh yeah. Seoul National University says "Snuppy is a clone" and you say "Oh yeah!" Oh yeah? These are the same guys who allowed Hwang to flourish in the first place, and who still have a hundred technicians they have to pay with state grant money. --It is not insignificant that an adult and a puppy have identical DNA. As an assertion made by a gentleman this would indicate one was a clone. But I note that a successful con depends on the artist being considered a gentleman. These men are gentlemen? I know I'm an extraordinarily extreme and tasteless fellow, but I presume self-interest and dishonesty. I presume fraud, and fraud is both clever and bold. "Snuppy is a clone." It's reported absolutely everywhere as fact. Are you going to send them your own money?
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