Abstract
Unease and apprehension about powerful science and technology are not new in the history of science. Now a new stage has been reached marked by a growing uneasiness of science among both the lay public and the scientific community itself – resulting in the genesis of bioscience ethics. It is now obvious that questions about the social responsibility of scientists and the applicability of their technology must be faced directly. Knowledge is dangerous in the hands of specialists who lack a conscience, or do not foresee the negative implications of their work.
Like most people, I instinctively recoil from the idea of cloning human beings. But we ought to pause and identify what in the process is so distressing.
The Ethics of Human Cloning by James Wilson, The American Enterprise 10:1999; page 67.
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Pollard, I. (2002). Cloning Technology. In: Life, Love and Children. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0278-4_10
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