Cloning crackpots update
Cloning crackpots update: The Washington Post last week ran an interview with Rael, founding guru of the Raelians. This week, Rael addressed followers in Montreal and admitted that the human cloning claims might be a hoax. "If [Clonaid director and Raelian bishop] Brigitte Boisselier has done it, she has achieved a wonderful thing and should receive a Nobel prize. If it isn't true, it's the most beautiful scientific joke but, in any case, it has allowed us to communicate our messages to the whole planet."
Meanwhile, Italian mad scientist/fertility doctor Severino Antinori has gone on hunger strike, accusing the Italian authorities of persecuting him for his human cloning projects. "From now on I am not eating anything until Prime Minister [Silvio] Berlusconi meets me and gives me guarantees that Italy is still a free country for science and for me."
The third notable cloning project is run by Michael Zavos of Kentucky, USA. His personal website has a photo of "Dr. Zavos sitting at Dan Rather's anchor desk at the CBS News Studio during his recent visit at CBS," so you know he's legit. I'm really tempted to steal that neat background tile for the next Daze Reader redesign.
