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Old 17-January-2006, 04:14 PM
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And under "News that make you go 'Huh?'", seems Cloneaid (remember them from the Eve fiasco?*) wants to hire Hwang Woo-suk.
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The U.S. biotech firm Clonaid has sprung to the rescue of the embattled cloning scientist Hwang Woo-sook with an offer to join a research partnership at its secret research facility. Clonaid was founded by the Raelian Movement, a cult-like religious group that maintains humans were created by aliens and claims to have cloned a human being. The company is represented by French scientist Dr. Brigitte Boisselier.
*Rats, can't find anything on a quick search, basically they claimed back in 2002 to have a sucessfully cloned somebody.. the girl, named "Eve," was never produced under claims of protecting her.
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And under "News that make you go 'Huh?'", seems Cloneaid (remember them from the Eve fiasco?*) wants to hire Hwang Woo-suk.


*Rats, can't find anything on a quick search, basically they claimed back in 2002 to have a sucessfully cloned somebody.. the girl, named "Eve," was never produced under claims of protecting her.
Shouldn't his name be Woo Woo-suk?
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Old 17-January-2006, 05:48 PM
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Lets see if I've got this straight. A woo-cult has offered to back a scientist who lied about his research???

Sounds kosher to me...
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No, no. A woo-cult which has supposedly already perfected the science of cloning wants to hire a scientist who lied about breakthroughs in cloning that ClonAid supposedly made years ago.

I guess they want him to pretend to re-discover the stuff that they pretended to discover already.
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Bloody Raelians. They actually came to my high school when I was in grade 7 to try to recruit people. That didn't go over too well with our friendly neighbourhood law enforcement officers.

The funny thing, though, is that I went to a Catholic school. And one of my teachers thought it would be funny to try to convert a few Raelians right back. Best conversation I've ever seen!
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Woo-Woo Cult protecting a scientist who lies about his research......

Sounds like "Birds of a feather....."
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Old 17-January-2006, 07:13 PM
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Even more interesting:

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Clonaid complained that while it was put under intense investigation over its human cloning activities, the Seoul National University (SNU) team, who recently surprised the world with their successful attempt of human embryo cloning, received virtually no scrutiny.

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Hwang Woo-suk, one of the scientists who lead the SNU research, said that Clonaid’s claim is ``nothing but a lie,’’ as all local researchers are linked in a network and ``everyone is aware what everyone else is doing.’’

Korea Times, 02-24-2004
I would think this was an article of The Onion, if I didn't know better.
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