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Recommended as an under $10 red food wine. Tasting notes to follow, after dinner.
Dr. Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology, who has been cloning humans for years, but he keeps it at the cellular level, says this is "a sad day for science".
Doc, it ain't science.
Two facts: 1) Dr. Brigitte Boisselier (left), director of science for the Raëlian Movement is in charge of verifying that their clone is truly a clone. 2) Clonaid, the front company for the Raëlian 'secret lab' in the Bahamas, sells the RMX2010, a ten thousand dollar do-hickey for stuffing DNA into cells. (Yesterday, the RMX cellular fusion device was marketed with a poster of a naked chick, swimming in cytoplasm with an RMX unit, promising eternal life.)
It's more like a marketing hoax than science: the Raëlian researchers have not presented any information that can lead to replication or verifying experiments. Not to mention the creepy prospect of 'friendly' ETs chumming up the failures.
Phil Ackley has a really cool picture of a boat anchor on his blog. Black and white photography is so expressive, but I find it impossible to do right without a real darkroom. Phil's work points out why film rules.
