Le Nouvel Observateur: Cloning - an advertising trick of the ufological sect

Chemist Bridget Buassel, the director of Clonaid, associated with the ufological sect, Raelian , claims that the first cloned baby was born . Genetics consider this a bluff and "propaganda."

The first cloned child was called Eve.

The child was endured, the birth passed through cesarean section, and the weight of the baby was 3.1 kg.

For cloning, Mother's DNA - 31 -year -old American was taken, Buassel said. As she noted, the girl is a genetic copy of her mother.

According to Buassel, the girl is healthy and three days later will be discharged home to her parents, and in a week to her will be accessed by independent experts who will have to confirm the result of an unprecedented experiment.

“You still have a week left to continue to blame me for charlatanism,” Buassel noted, turning to reporters. “Then you will see my rightness.”

The head of Clonaid also said that the birth of the next cloned child is expected next week in Europe. According to her, by the end of January - early February, it is expected that three more cloned children will be born: one in North America and two in Asia .

On Friday, Bridget Buassel must hold a press conference in Florida, accompanied by an “independent expert”, which should take to analyze the cells containing the DNA of the baby and mother. Many scientists express doubt about the ability of Clonaid to successfully carry out human cloning. This company was created in 1997 by French journalist Claude Worilon, the leader of the Raelian sect, today LE Nouvel Observateur writes (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

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The Frenchman Claude Vulilon (born in 1946) claims that on December 13, 1973, an alien appeared to him and invited him to his ship. There, he explained to Claud that he represents a civilization that significantly exceeds the earthly in its development and wants to help earthlings. Vulill calls representatives of this civilization by the biblical name 'Elohim' (perfumes), which in the Old Testament is sometimes called God. Elohim was renamed Claude in Rael, which means 'a messenger coming from heaven.'

The messages transmitted by Rael say that earthlings are at risk of exterminating the human race created in the image of Elohim, who have long made a perfect design of the DNA. They instructed Rael to create an organization, transfer their messages to earthlings and build an embassy somewhere near Jerusalem for official meetings of humanoids with political leaders of the Earth.

The followers of Rael can recognize each other by a special medallion in the form of a six -pointed star with a swastika inscribed in it, which they consider to be a symbol of infinity. In addition, they believe that this medallion serves for telepathic communication with Elohim and helps the awakening of consciousness.

"Bishop"

Bridget Buassel, a chemist and former director of the marketing department of a French chemical company, claims to be a “bishop” of Raelian and that the Clonaid company with the Raelians is binding purely spiritual rather than economic bonds. It does not specialize in the problems of genetic reproduction. Human cloning prohibited in many countries, including France, is not regulated in the United States with special legislation, but any manipulations with people are required to permit the administration. Bridget Buassel did not say where her experiments are conducted.

"Geniocracy"

Claude Vulilon (aka Rael) and his followers proclaim that in the 70s he was visited by alien creatures who informed him that they had created life on Earth with the help of genetic technologies. Representing himself as a prophet, standing on a par with Moses and Muhammad, he preaches the scentist interpretation of the Bible. He claims that the aliens (Elohim from the Book of Genesis), who arrived on flying saucers 25 thousand years ago, brought human life to Earth, and that human beings were created by cloning. According to "Rael", cloning will allow a person to someday gain an eternal life, constantly updating his bodily shell. The Raelians, who are all over the world (according to their statement), 55 thousand people also call themselves supporters of "genius" - the authorities of the smartest.

It is not amenable to verification

Since all the works of Raelian for the production of the first “cloned” baby were carried out in an environment of increased secrecy, and their results were not published, it is impossible to get any reliable scientific confirmation of the fact that the baby is indeed a clone.

So, the French geneticist Axel Kane said on Friday on the Europe-1 channel that there is no “decisively evidence” that the sect was born through a cloning child. "Scientists will have to make a genetic map of a cloned child and the genetic map of the one whose clone is this child, and show that these cards are identical to each other," Axel Kan explains. "In addition, there is a technique that has not yet worked in cases with monkeys and people. Have the Raelians were the first to have been the first to force it to work? There are no data that allowed today to think so."

“Therefore,” the geneticist concludes, “if this child is cloned and if the Raelian wants to prove it, let them cite scientific evidence. While they are not, all this remains pure water with propaganda.”

If the fact is confirmed by an independent scientific source, in any case, it will be about the first child received by cloning a person whose birth will be announced publicly. Thus, humanity will enter into the era of non -staff reproduction: this will be the first child who is not the fruit of the mixing of the genes of the father and mother, but genetically reproducing one of his parents.