Mänskliga kloningsförsöket som ingen vet var den är.

Well, the deadline has passed, and Clonaid has failed to produce a DNA sample to show that the baby "Eve" is in fact a clone. Clonaid, for anyone who lived in a cave in late December, is a company set up by the Raelians, a religious group set up in 1973 by former French journalist and race car driver Claude Vorilhon. Vorilhon (now Rael) says aliens asked him to set up an embassy to welcome back to earth the aliens who populated this planet in the first place - by cloning themselves. Vorilhon and Clonaid executive Brigitte Boisselier claim the DNA testing was stopped when they were subpoenaed to appear in a Florida court, which was considering putting the baby under court protection. There was, of course, a lot of insane coverage. First: could it possibly be true? Second: was it responsible journalism to make it front-page news everywhere? There's nothing more amusingly self-referential than major media making a huge amount of noise about whether it's responsible to give the story they're filling their hours/pages with so much coverage. And then reviewing each other's coverage, and complaining about how the other media are sensationalizing the story. And so on. But the interesting thing here is that the Raelians are a group for whom believing in cloning is really necessary. Without it, no humans at all. (Which is an interesting question: if aliens populated the earth by cloning themselves, when and why was sexual reproduction invented?) Maybe the reason they cancelled the DNA tests is simply that they don't want to know it's not true...