Stupidity on the rise: UN approves human cloning ban

@Kevin Cloning need not be cloning of full humans. As Dolly experience suggests Dolly clone was as old as Dolly. However that still makes therapeutic cloning possible. You can create a clone of kidney and replace a diseased kidney of a 50 year old. Sure the cloned kidney will also be 50 years old ( based on telomer sequence). However that is fine.

@Send in the Clones
Yes, I believe the future of medical science is in stem cell research and therpeutic cloning (including human organs). And countries like USA which have so far been on the forefront of medical science will soon be losing ground to these countries and its face to millions of people who are affected with diseases like diabetes, kidney, heart, liver diseases etc.

I am in the US (white dude) and I couldn’t agree more! IT’s a REAL shame that such medical miracles that could stem from all this are being shunted by the world at large!

I mean, ok, I am kind of on the “its weird” side thinking that a clone of me could be brought to life (I imagine we are a long ways off from growing a human to full adult hood right from a cloned state… my guess is they would be born like anyone else). On the other hand, the ability to grow “cloned” parts for my body, that is amazing and could prove the cure for a LOT of problems. Of course, assuming you are rich enough to buy one and then pay for the surgery..

It is a real shame though! A woman in South Korea is a result of stem cell research that was once crippled can now walk! These things await us and it would almost be a truly amazing time to live. I imagine our kids *might* see the miracles that we should be seeing in our lifetiime.

So if you don’t clone you aren’t contributing to medical science? Interesting.