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...Consent is irrelevant," objects Arthur Caplan, director of the bioethics center at the University of Pennsylvania. "When you're dealing with desperate illness, people will consent to anything...
...commercial cloning clinic in the Chicago area, the world reacted with stunned surprise. President Clinton blasted the idea as "untested and unsafe and morally unacceptable." Experts questioned whether the 69-year-old physicist was capable of carrying out such an ambitious undertaking. Said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur Caplan: "He has as much chance of cloning a human as my Uncle Morty does...
Scientists don't pretend to know when that will happen, but some science observers fear it will be soon. The first infant clone could come squalling into the world within seven years according to Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. If he's right, science had better get its ethical house in order quickly. In calendar terms, seven years from now is a good way off; in scientific terms, it's tomorrow afternoon...
Stranger still--and even more disturbing--is the idea that humans might try to produce designer children by sampling the sperm of superstars. What makes using frozen stem cells different from frozen sperm, says Art Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, is that it creates the possibility of an unlimited supply. "That," he says, "opens the opportunity for mass...
...think people at Harvard have an advantage inthe sense that it's Harvard," Caplan says. "Firmslike to recruit here. Very highly regarded firmslike Goldman Sachs like to have Harvard people ontheir payroll...