Or is it rather: the Talk of the World? Ever since Dolly the Sheep, cloning research is not a true novelty. A few scientists felt uncomfortable, others were envious; the media did their usual thing: incompetent manipulating of the public. Although mutually exclusive, politics and ethics started to interfere and keep on doing so. The facts remain: successful cloning of small mammals has been accomplished long before, on a small scale, without too much publicity and further progress was absolutely predictable. It was not a question of if, but when; although not quite a race, several competing laboratories quietly and diligently pursued the goal of cloning human embryos and nobody had any reason to doubt that this is possible and achievable. Once the inevitable happened, it still made headlines and polarized opinions pro and contra on a wide scale from indignation to jubilation. What causes this unquestionable uproar? The perspective of enormous commercial gains from cloning? A revolution in medical thinking with spare parts available for repair, comparable to a garage? Creating and controlling life, until now a privilege of the Supreme Being?
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