Cloning the First Human
Doctors Panayiotis Zavos and Severino Antinori claim they are ready to embark on the greatest human experiment of our age. They say they will attempt to clone a human being. Most people think the objections to this are ethical – human cloning would create many moral dilemmas.
There is another question that few ever ask: is the science actually ready yet for cloning healthy humans? Horizon follows the latest research, which has led many scientists to believe that Zavos and Antinori’s plans to clone the first human could end in tragedy. The program also meets couples who think cloning offers them the only way to raise a child who is truly their own.
For decades, cloning remained within the realms of science fiction. The idea that instead of combining a sperm and an egg, a new human could be made from a single cell taken from an adult, seemed completely absurd. But that all changed in February 1997 when Dolly the sheep became the first animal cloned from an adult.
Ever since Dolly, scientists have been continuing to experiment with cloning animals. So far, they have succeeded with a lot of side effects in cloning sheep, cattle, pigs, goats and mice, fueling the belief that humans could be next. You might also want to watch Human Cloning here at TDF.
Yikes! There are some sickos out there and on here. As far as @Nat Turner calling white people sick. Look in the mirror dude, it isn't race/color that is the problem, it is the mentality/choices an individual makes or is raised into. Which color/race hasn't committed atrocities?
I reco watching the movie "The Island" with Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor for an interesting look at what the purpose of cloning will be used for. In this supposed fiction they found the human organs and parts wouldn't develop correctly without everything else stimulated to some degree similarly as a regular human develops, thereby making a walking talking thinking clone ...that they cut up for parts for rich people clone sponsors. This of course is where the idea of immortality, well in this case, extended life, has led.
So people abuse their gift of life and no worries I'll just get a new liver and heart from my clone.
Rather than asking the silly question, "What's wrong with it?" Why not ask what is right with it, instead?
Intelligence is no match for wisdom. And the two unfortunately do not come as a package deal.
What would happen if all those humans engaged in developing weapons of war, atomic bombs, nuclear reactors, biological and chemical weapons ...actually spent their time doing something worthwhile? Like raising decent members of society or studying the work of Tesla and many others for a real solution to energy and pollution? You allow your tax dollars to be spent on that military research as well as subsidizing the world pollution industry called fossil fuel.
Similarly what would happen if such medical/biological scientists worked on projects that didn't require "playing god" for ego gratification and profit? I for one have a friend in a wheelchair that used to be athletic. How about working on ways to enable him to walk again or a replacement kidney that isn't from a clone for all those people who listened to their profiteering doctors and took the prescribed pharmaceuticals that over the years wiped out their kidneys?
There will be no humanity left unless we start shaming people and cut off their funding; be it the military industrial complex, monsanto, or these biomedical and pharmaceutical types.
What is wrong with cloning humans? If it comes out so wrong that it wouldn't be able to live a healthy enough life then you simply kill it like any other animal. A cloned human is not the same as a naturally born human. Starting to try to clone humans as soon as viably possible would boost the studies by an enormous amount of time.
The less time it takes to clone an "average" human, the more time scientists will have to start using these clones in studies that could again boost our research in all kinds of areas.
"But oh no, infecting clones with different diseases and viruses or using clones to implant them with various technologies would be unethical!" - screamed millions of people. And a leader who wants the votes to become the next whoever of whatever, while knowing about experiments made in secret.
Sorry, but if I could promise a better life for future generations without sacrificing any natural humans, then I couldn't give less of a crap about clones that might be "abused".
If you look back in the history then wars have always skyrocketed our knowledge and technology. A lot of experiments have been done on captives and victims of war, while I think that it is most certainly a horrible thing- it sure didn't harm the science aspect tho.
Then again, clones might act/react very differently from natural humans and might unleash unknown amount of mixed "diseases/viruses etc" on the World when integrating them with the rest of the society, so I would keep them secluded for as long as possible. Much like cloned or modified food that could have disastrous effects on people in the long run.
We have the ability to do great good through our pursuit of knowledge, but we could also end up inflicting irredeemable harm.
There is a lot we don't know about cloning humans and it can only be solved by actively doing it.
The problem with cloning, I think is that the clone wouldn't have a soul.
And it would be just a body, and brain. It may have intelligence and could learn, but it wouldn't have empathy and react to things the same way we do. They wouldn't have a conscience and hence would be psychopathic.
cloning would be good if only for purpose ofgetting new arm or something like that
I'm not religious or anything but I'm still against cloning human beings
Why would you want to clone your dying mother, if by the time they could clone her you would be old and dying yourself. (to give her a second chance)...second chance at what though.She's not going to have her memories. Nor, will you be able to enjoy her company. The idea is ridiculous!
I shudder at the notion of a blackmarket emerging for cloned celebrities as sex slaves.
i think we are on right track. too many cissarions these days our head is getting bigger than.... . i don't like to see my girl suffer giving birth to a child....i rather do clone of mine and her, and have a boy and a girl by choice :)
I want my girl friend cloned and a clone of me as well. It would be so cool to see how we'd get along as children/brother hell maybe even lovers as they wouldn't be related. Wonder when they will be able to make a clone of a person as the opposite sex and then they could have sex and make a natural clone. OMG good thing I cant clone. :p
Let us be more rational in our approach towards cloning..if scientist can successfully produce a human clone that could be the biggest achievement in the history of science even more greater than finding a aliens and extraterrestrial life...it will be a great step towards understanding the human evolution..
If you do a little research you can find that the Germans first cloned a human in 1927, and after WWII our gov't smuggled nazi scientists into north and south america. These facts are documented. Our gov't is WAY more technologically advanced than they want us to think they are.
I'm all for human cloning but " fools rush In" and that Is exactly what Is happening.
At the moment we have no real idea of the effects that will happen, the people doing the cloning say that It Is up to the people wanting the cloning done, these people are largely uneducated and no matter what they read on the Internet, they still don't understand fully what the science behind cloning Is, none of us do.
So why not wait 20-30 years and wait for the science to full grow, only then will we know the full implications of what cloning will do to the human race, then we can make a moral and educated decision whether to go ahead with human cloning.
How are people even considering using cloning as a way to give loved ones a second life? A person is the result of all the experiences in their life, not their physical attributes. The clone would be a totally diferrent person, defeating the purpose of their creation in this case.
Whats so wrong about the old fashion way of making babies. Humans have ****** up everything we have touched, and now we can include human babies to that list. These ***holes should be cloning organs and tissues and not whole humans, if you screw up a cloned kidney, you just have some unusable meat to throw out and start over again; but if a cloned fetus goes wrong, what you have left over is essentially an aborted baby. Not to mention the mother has to carry it for 9 months and give birth to find out if it worked properly.
missing a relative so much you would want to clone her/him back to life, so weak. cloning is for making arms, legs, hearts or something that is NEEDED like lungs... we don't need your mother to come back, sorry, now you have cut into your mother's cadavre for nothing.
you know that couple that says walk in our shoes. well they are infertial and when they adopted it fell through, why dont they foster children then if they want a child so bad! And for all the homeless parentless children all over the world. people are just creating new life when there are so many that need help already. They shoueld take the money to help others. Wouldnt it be a setp forward as is cloning to create some kinda welfare for the world and for already living people.
So, we can clone blood-thirstly dictators -"Boy's in Brazil" - by the thousands. Great! Need a university full of English Professors? We'll send over a dozen Dr. Dans for a consistent curriculum. Like with nuclear power it just depends on how you use it, right? And how has it been used?
I hate human race. especialy when I am being watched becouse people are afraid of me. no reason. All I want is peace
baaaaaaaad idea
It has been achieved in some secret underground base. If it's being discussed it's been done.
Cloning is an unholy violation against nature and must never be allowed. I didn't even watch the documentary - I don't believe in it at all. These kinds of scientists have no reverence for the balance of nature whatsoever.
According to a Yahoo search, Dr. Zavos has succeeded in cloning 14 embreos in 2009, emplanting 11 into the wombs of four women, but no viable pregnancies resulted. I think until we can perfect clones in animals, cloning in humans shouldn't even be tried.
well being a clone could have it's benefits. if you can clone you can modify the clone. I FOR ONE WOULD LIKE TO GLOW IN THE DARK!!!
bugging out like tory spelling died!!!!
It's quite obvious that nature has been cloning for many years such that it perfects the process overtime. I think the problem lies in being able to duplicate the complex process of cloning since we do not anticipate all the important details that are critical to normal growth. I'm quite convinced that if cloning does not produce desirable results (a normal/healthy living being), but rather produces an unhealthy, abnormal, and defective being that is liable to suffering, then it is immoral to clone artificially.
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Im referring to 50 or 100 years in the future when parents, in their infinite wisdom, want‘designer kids’; the boys looking like the Brad Pitts or George Clooneys and the girls like thevJ-Los or Jennifer Annistons of the day. A time when, because of this technology, there are 10,000 of each out there, or because of this, you have six people in the same school that look alike. It will happen… because people claim to be intelligent doesn’t mean they are. Lindsay Lohan wore a white ‘mini-dress’ to her court hearing for the alleged necklace theft and by week's end the entire stock of white mini-dresses was sold out. People, with all their intelligence, are still lemmings by nature. Nature uses two distinct parents to procreate a new generation with many benefits of genetic diversity; mass cloning will short-circuit that process.
The thing that is really 'retarded'is that man, with all of his knowledge and intellect, cannot seem to look past his ability to advance technology and 'think' in the long run, is it a good idea.