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02/04/2008
George Daley, Robert Bazell
A discussion about Human Cloning
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A discussion about Human Cloning with Robert Bazell, Chief Science and Health Correspondent for NBC News and George Daley, Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Boston Children's Hospital.

























Another important discussion on the most pressing issues of medical technologies our society is gripped with. There is no simple answer to the need to explore advanced medical technology and balance it with the demand of bioethicist (Nay-sayers). Since the time of immemorial humans have always push the envelop in pushing the use of advanced medical technology. Never have man come to the closest proximity to attaining the very basic understanding of the source of life itself. Unfortunately many Nay-sayers are attempting to curb the hunger for more knowledge. These same Nay-sayers refuse to ban HGH, which is open for anyone wanting to benefit from it. Today's Nay-Sayers are the same as the 17th century kings and queens who condemned chemists as wiches and ubnormals humans. However, in time the need for medication and extend the life of man overwheled those kings and queens from preventing man from exploring for better medication and advanced treatments. Much the same way as man has overcome the 16th and 17th century Nay-sayers the current desire of man's medical desire for advanced medical treatment will continue with greater burning desire to explore Embrionic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) and its benefits with or without the Nay-sayers. Our society continue to experience more and more illnesses originating from the lifestyle that technology has brought along it's benefits, the only way to tackle these illnesses and prolems are to use the same method man applied to to create the technolgies, i.e. to explore more ways to extend life and lessen pain. In fact, if my predictions are proven right, soon we shall see human spare parts sold in the market for the highest bidder as competing nations continue to allow their best scientists engage with whaever research is considered worth exploring and stuudying.