Scientist accuses colleagues of putting ambition before life

[Rosalinda]

The debate on human cloning is hot in Australia too as a bill will be voted on next month. This is an interview of an American scientist on tour.

Professor Sherley, who studies stem cells made from adult tissue, arrives in Sydney today for a tour hosted by Doctors Against Cloning.
Speaking exclusively to The Australian, he said supporters of embryonic stem cell research ignored evidence that adult stem cells had far greater potential, if they could be produced in large quantities.
He said his concern about scientific dishonesty had driven him out of his Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory and into the public debate. “By criteria that scientists understand, it (an embryo) is alive,” he said. “If it’s not human, what else could it be?”

theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20547392-2702,00.html

Yes, indeed Professor Sherley asks a good question. Techniques already exist which would allow scientists who are playing with the very Tree of Life to fabricate a human being with not one, not two, but three sets of parents and they wouldn’t all necessarily need to be human. Of course, these ever so ethical scientists would destroy such a chimera before it was ever allowed to gestate full-term. :yup: That’s a promise.