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Former ABC News science editor Michael A. Guillen late last month offered to test the claims of the Clonaid corporation that it had cloned a human baby. The company is associated with the “Raelians,” a cult whose leader believes he has communicated with extraterrestrials. Guillen offered to hire outside scientists to test whether the baby was, indeed, a clone. His very involvement, including an appearance with Clonaid’s chief Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, helped give the claims credence. Indeed, his imprimatur as an outside “expert” suddenly made...
...Monday, Guillen finally came to his senses and admitted that the Raelian sect might just be putting on “an elaborate hoax” in claiming to have produced a cloned baby. However, this admission came too late. Guillen’s shameless boosterism of so frightening a story over the past few weeks has embarrassed both journalists and scientists. He presided over a circus featuring the worst of both professions—a self-aggrandizing scientist playing God and a journalist who was not content to report the news, and instead decided to make it. In other...
...York Times reported Sunday that Guillen also may have been biased by a financial motive. He had unsuccessfully attempted to sell rights to a documentary about the test first to Fox and then to all of the major networks and cable news outlets for more than $100,000, The Times said...
...Guillen taught in the Core for eight years between 1985 and 1994, according to Core Curriculum administrator Susan W. Lewis...
...Guillen juggled his teaching duties at the College with a job as the official science reporter for the ABC television program “Good Morning, America...