December 2001 Vol.4, No. 10 Contents Breaking the Spell of Harry Potter by Darris McNeely Restoration...The Coming "Utopia" by Darris McNeely Europe's New Money by Paul Kieffer Keep Your Eye on Gibraltar! by John Ross Schroeder Next on the Agenda-Mideast Peace by Melvin Rhodes Making Sense of the Cloning Claims by Cecil E. Maranville Excerpts From Good News Radio: God's Wake-Up Call by Gary Petty This Is the Way...When "The Great Game" Is Over by Robin Webber Making Sense of the Cloning Claims Fantastic claims about humans being cloned for the first time splashed across newspaper headlines and were broadcast from the electronic media on the weekend of Nov. 25-26. Are they true? Have human beings been cloned by a biotech lab in Massachusetts? What is the significance of this unbelievable claim? by Cecil E. Maranville With superb coordination more indicative of a marketing ploy or a political strategy than a scientific announcement, Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (ACT) declared to the world in late November that its Massachusetts facility had successfully cloned a human being on Oct. 31, 2001. Most news media dutifully reported the announcement as fact. But is the company's claim true? You would assume so, on the basis of most press reports. "First Human Embryo Is Cloned," reported David Derbyshire, science correspondent for the U.K.'s Electronic Telegraph. "U.S. Scientists Cloned Human Embryos," penned Rick Weiss of the Nov. 25 Washington Post. NewScientist.com headlined the story, "First Cloned Human Embryos Created." "The First Human Cloned Embryo" is the title of an article published in the January issue of Scientific American, written, by the way, by the principal corporate officers of ACT. Joannie Fischer of U.S. News & World Report wrote the cover story for its Dec. 3 issue: "Scientists have finally cloned a human embryo," says the subtitle. "The breakthrough promises cures for terrible diseases." Ms. Fischer has been reporting on the issue for the past 18 months and is no stranger to the details of the cloning process or to ACT's research findings. She appeared in a split-screen interview with Dr. Michael West, CEO of ACT, on NBC's Meet the Press program Sunday Nov. 25, speaking glowingly of Dr. West's and ACT's "breakthrough." Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0112/cloning.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Table of Contents that includes "Making Sense of the Cloning Claims" Other Articles by Cecil Maranville Cloning: _Cloning: Is Man About to Make Himself In His Own Image? _World News Review April/May 2000 _World News Review February 2001 _World News Review Sep/Oct 2001 _Visions of Judgment: The Coming Ride of the Horsemen of Revelation _Where Will the Genetics Revolution Lead? _Cloning: A Dangerous Journey Into Uncharted Waters? Science and ethics: _Atheistic Scientists Who Play God - Where It Might Lead _World News Review January 2001 _A Gory Harvest _Why the Human Genome Project? _Did God Give Animals Rights? Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site