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PARIS - South Korean cloning expert Hwang Woo-suk, a science superstar disgraced when his pioneering stem cell research was unmasked as a fraud, has a new job offer from a UFO cult that says it has produced six human clones. Clonaid, a company linked to a group that believes humans were cloned from prehistoric alien visitors to Earth, said it had offered him a post in one of its laboratories.

 GENEVA, January 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo is reporting that a “US biotech firm” has offered the disgraced Korean cloning researcher, Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, a job. The firm, Clonaid, has been discredited as a sham associated with “Raelians”, a UFO cult that claims humans were planted on Earth by benevolent extraterrestrials.  The cult’s spokesman, Brigitte Boisselier, writing on Clonaid’s website, accuses “religious powers,” for Hwang’s downfall saying it was engineered and that his research results were tampered with. “We also believe that…he has been discredited as he wasn't in line with what the political and...

The U.S. biotech firm Clonaid has sprung to the rescue of the embattled cloning scientist Hwang Woo-sook with an offer to join a research partnership at its secret research facility. Clonaid was founded by the Raelian Movement, a cult-like religious group that maintains humans were created by aliens and claims to have cloned a human being. The company is represented by French scientist Dr. Brigitte Boisselier. A press release from the company on Monday said Boisselier has written to Hwang to outline the proposal. Boisselier said she believed Hwang’s discoveries to be original and that groups opposing stem cell research...

The controversial international cloning group Clonaid claims to have successfully created its sixth child, following the birth of a baby boy in Sydney last week. The child is said to have been born in a Sydney hospital on February 5, 2004, to infertile parents living in the greater Sydney area. Head of the Clonaid project, biochemist Brigitte Boisselier, who is in Australia to monitor the birth, said the boy had been released from hospital and was being monitored by a local pediatrician. "It happened last Thursday morning, the baby is a little boy," Dr Boisselier told AAP. "We waited a...

S Korea bars cloning sect leader South Korea has denied entry to the leader of a religious sect that claimed it had produced the first cloned human. The founder of the Raelian movement, Claude Vorilhon, was forced to leave the country after being detained for nine hours at Incheon airport in Seoul. The Justice Ministry said it was concerned that he might engage in cloning activities. Clonaid, the sect's cloning company which Mr Vorilhon set up, has been investigated over reports that South Korean women have been involved in its cloning experiments. The sect said Seoul's rejection of their leader...

Here Come the Jersey Clones A devastating bill inches toward law. The U.S. Congress remains practically agnostic on human cloning. Or so its inaction suggests. A bill sits in the House of Representatives waiting to face debate. A Senate bill sponsored by Senator Sam Brownback, too, waits in the wings. The president issued a challenge to the legislative branch to get moving during his State of the Union address last week, and to get moving toward a total prohibition on all human cloning — not some half-baked ban that would, in the end, let the clone creation march onward anyway;...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: The head of a group that claims to have produced the world's first human clone insisted under oath Wednesday that the baby exists and said the girl is in Israel, not the United States. Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier also said she had only seen the child, nicknamed Baby Eve by the company, on videotape. Her testimony led a judge to throw out a guardianship petition involving the child. When Boisselier announced late last month that Clonaid had produced a healthy human clone, she promised that independent DNA testing would prove the claim in about 10 days. But...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (Reuters) - A Florida judge dismissed a petition to appoint a state guardian for allegedly cloned baby "Eve" on Wednesday after the company that says it cloned the child stated the infant was in Israel. Expressing skepticism that a cloned child even existed but concern for its welfare if it did, Juvenile Court Judge John Frusciante said his court had no jurisdiction in the case. Frusciante dismissed the private citizen's petition after Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier testified to the court in Fort Lauderdale that the child and her mother were in Israel and the baby had never...

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...

The American company Clonaid, related to the sect of the raéliens and which asserts the birth of two babies clones, affirmed Saturday with a Japanese television that a baby Japanese clone will be born lundi.La president de Clonaid Brigitte Boisselier indicated to the private chain Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) that the baby has cloné starting from a two year old small boy, killed in a car accident. It did not indicate the birthplace envisaged of the bébé.Le Japan adopted in the year a 2000 legislation prohibiting the human cloning. The law envisages a prison sentence ten year old maximum...

FORT LAUDERDALE: An executive with the company that claims to have produced a human clone was subpoenaed to appear in court, and the company was ordered to disclose the whereabouts of the baby girl and her mother. The witness subpoena and summons were approved yesterday by a court at the request of attorney Bernard Siegel, who has filed a lawsuit asking the state to appoint a guardian for the child, the attorney said. The papers were delivered to Thomas Kaenzig, a Clonaid vice president, before he spoke at the Money World 2003 conference in Fort Lauderdale, Siegel said. If Kaenzig...

LONDON (Reuters) - Human clones are likely to be unhealthy and such experiments should be banned, the head of the institute that created Dolly the sheep said on Saturday, hours after a cult said it had produced the second cloned baby.Harry Griffin of the Roslin Institute in Scotland, which made history by cloning Dolly from an adult sheep in 1996, told Reuters the claims by Clonaid, a group linked to the UFO-obsessed Raelian religious sect, were probably bogus. "Clonaid have made claims of two births, but of yet provided no evidence that either baby exists, no evidence from DNA tests,...

SUSPICIONS mounted yesterday over a scientist’s claims to have created the world’s first human clone after she failed to submit the baby for DNA testing. Dr Brigitte Boisselier - medical director of Clonaid, a maverick scientific research company founded by an alien-worshipping cult - announced the child’s birth a week ago. Now she says the American parents of baby Eve have changed their mind about submitting the child to an independent medical examination to prove it is indeed identical to its 31-year-old mother. Dr Boisselier blamed a lawsuit launched in Florida earlier this week for the change of heart. Dr...

News outlets failed dismally in reporting on Clonaid OPINION By Art Caplan, Ph.D. Jan. 3 — I do not believe chemist Brigitte Boisselier and her cloning company Clonaid, which is sponsored by the manifestly crazy cult known as the Raelians, have created a clone. I do believe that a number of negative ramifications have resulted since Boisselier appeared just after Christmas in a tacky Hollywood, Fla., motel room to announce to the world that the first cloned human had been born. And the blame for these unfortunate events must be laid squarely at the feet of the media.

January 3, 2003Obscene Clone Falls: Who Made Who?   The negative reaction to human cloning has been so intense and so rapid, so driven by the mass media that I have noticed that the majority has already resolved that Clonaid’s claims of a cloned female are fraudulent. Unfortunately the ambush journalism that exists in the mainstream media has not given us a reason to even realize that there are some new revelations about Cloning if we just listen. Tonight we ask that you put your prejudice aside and listen to a representative of Clonaid, the group who claims to have...

<p>Who can resist a story about clones, aliens and sexual intrigue?</p> <p>Hardly any media outlets in the United States can, judging from the amount of coverage lavished on the recent announcement that a French chemist associated with a cult that believes aliens populated the Earth by cloning themselves had orchestrated the birth of a human clone.</p>

My wife and I were listening to whoever was filling in for Rush Limbaugh a couple of days ago and having a few laughs as he discussed the "Raelians" and the cloning controversy. My wife commented that the founder of the cult had probably watched too much Star Trek while "chemically enhanced" - she makes these cracks knowing I am a hopeless Trekkie. Then it hits me that I knew the name "Rael" from somewhere before. Yep - Star Trek! Below is the entry for "Rael" from the Star Trek Encyclopedia, Expanded Edition, published 1999 (I swear, it was for...

Purported clone coming home to U.S. today, official says Company tied to sect states it will allow independent DNA tests 12/30/2002 Associated Press NEW YORK - The company that says it created the world's first cloned human says the baby, nicknamed "Eve," is coming home to the United States on Monday. The baby is flying into the country with her family, Brigitte Boisselier said Sunday, two days after she announced the child's birth. Dr. Boisselier is chief executive of Clonaid, the cloning company affiliated with a religious sect that believes space aliens launched life on Earth. "The baby is...

THE MASTER: Vorhilon beside model of a DNA strand CLONE DOC'S JOY OF SECTSDRESSED from head to toe in figure-hugging black, baby-clone doctor Brigitte Boisselier strutted between 17 nervous ‘initiates' to her sex cult. The ten men and seven women gathered at a remote farmhouse on the 2,000-acre estate of Sir Richard Glyn near Wimborne in Dorset. And by the flickering light of candles and the booming sound of whale song, the prospective converts to the Raelian movement, in which Brigitte is a ‘bishop', were coaxed into sharing and exploring their darkest fantasies. This is the same woman who, on...