Attack of the Human Clone

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Attack of the Human Clone


Lee M Silver, an expert in behavioral genetics, informs his audience in his essay “Cloning Misperceptions” that many people fear the cloning of human beings simply because of confusion over the true meaning of cloning and what it encompasses. He allows the reader to recognize why people may have gotten the wrong ideas about cloning and how these ideas if scrutinized, don’t have a just place and are based on fictitious beliefs and stubborn mindsets. Silver uses the popular belief based on books and movies to show where these misconceptions came from and further uses science to disrepute such beliefs and persuade the reader that cloning is harmless and should be accepted because human personality is based on life experiences which cannot be genetically cloned.

First, Silver discusses the usage of cloning by popular belief and then contrasts it to what cloning is scientifically. He states, “In its popular usage, clone re...