Third cloned baby claimed (in Japan Clown-aid says, but again no proof)

The Daily Telegraph ^ | January 24 2003

[knighthawk]

THE Clonaid group says a third cloned baby has been born in Japan, but has again offered no proof.

"A third baby is born now," Clonaid president Brigitte Boisselier said today.

She said the parents were a Japanese couple in their 40s and the baby, born Wednesday, was cloned from another of the couple's children who was in a coma.

Clonaid has so far failed to provide any evidence to back up its claims of successful human cloning.

International scientists have expressed widespread scepticism since an announcement of the first baby in December.

Boisselier said the previous babies were born to North American and European parents.

Clonaid is linked to the Raelian sect, which claims 55,000 members around the world and believes the human race was cloned from extra-terrestrials who came to Earth 25,000 years ago.

According to the sect there are 6000 members in Japan.

[knighthawk]

Raelian leader: Clone claim possible hoax: Cult founder tells followers he likes publicity
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/827087/posts

[RightWhale]

The lawsuit in America should resolve the issue.

[jimkress]

Tell a lie enough times and becomes the truth.

[nhoward14]

Maybe the Cloneaid folks should talk to somebody from Enron or Global Crossing and get some ideas on how to make people think something imaginary actually exists.

[MeekOneGOP]

A claim of human cloning? It's been done before - Raelians '78 announcement was ruled a fraud
			Posted by MeeknMing On 01/01/2003 5:47 AM CST The Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2003 | The Washington Post Staff A claim of human cloning? It's been done before '78 announcement was ruled a fraud; new case awaiting validation 01/01/2003 The Washington Post For all the speed with which science was progressing, virtually no one thought it would happen so soon. Yet there it was in huge block letters on the front page of the New York Post: The world's first human clone had been born. The next day, The Washington Post and other newspapers across the country ran with the story about the rogue scientists who had cloned a human on an undisclosed island. A spokesman connected to...

[Cvengr]

I suspect one major tactic being employed is to force a legal situation which declares 'clones' as human under the same laws as all men to set legal precendence and avoid future arguments which might be raised to cause a scientific proof of their human identity.