Morally challenged cloning research
The headline was buried in the Jan. 21 NewScience article reporting another potential scandal in the cloning world.
This one involved claims made in 2003 by researcher Hui-Zhen Sheng of China, who reported he had successfully harvested embryonic stem cells from rabbit-human embryos.
Scientists now wary after being duped by fallen clone king Hwang Woo-Suk are sounding the alarm on Sheng, because no one has been able to duplicate his work.
Scientists did not sound the alarm three years ago when Sheng inserted human cells into rabbit eggs. It only matters now whether Sheng lied about the products of that conception.
In other words, the means weren't called into account, just the ends.
ESCR and cloning researchers say they are an ethical bunch. For instance...
Continue reading my column today, "Morally challenged cloning research," on WorldNetDaily.com.
3 comments:
Are you claiming that the anti-abortion people are not "morally challenged"?
I am pro-Life and I really see no problem with these experiments. The human cell inserted into a rabbit egg has no potential to become a human being so it is not a distinct human life but rather just copies of cells from the human nuclear donor. This is much much more ethical than embryonic stem cell research where a distinct human entity with a unique genome is destroyed for research. The cells created here have about the moral equivalence of a human brain or skin or liver cell, which are rightly used in research all the time (I have used immortalized human cells myself in research. HeLa is the most common type).
Reading the whole article on your website, the only experiment that would appear to me to be unethical was the male cells into the female embryo, as it was experimenting on a human species. The others seem perfectly fine and ethical to me and could have the potential to create great animal models to design cures and treatments for human diseases.
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