CLONABLE? Harvard researcher George Church ignited a bit of an intellectual firestorm recently when he suggested the possibility of cloning Neanderthals.© DCTIM1/FLICKR
—Harvard synthetic biologist George Church on the feasibility of cloning a Neanderthal, from the English translation of a Spiegel Online interview, which was badly misquoted by several news outlets (Jan. 18, 2013)
—FoxNews.com’s initial distortion of George Church’s comments to German publication Der Spiegel on the technological reality of eventually cloning a Neanderthal (Jan. 21, 2013)
—Barack Obama, in his inaugural address marking the start of his second term as President of the United States (Jan. 21, 2013)
—Famed naturalist Sir David Attenborough, in an interview for Radio Times (Jan. 22, 2013)
— The PLOS Medicine Editors, in a recent editorial about making future clinical trials more transparent (January 2013)
—Stanford University neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, answering Edge.org’s Annual Question for 2013: “What *should* we be ...
