Consumer’s Guide to A Brave New World

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Scare headlines about the first human clones appear in our newspapers. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as ìproductsî for use in medical treatments. Events are moving so fastóand biotechnology seems so complicatedóthat many of us worry we canít keep up. But now, Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to the brave new world that is no longer a figment of our imagination, but a reality just around the corner of our lives. Smith unravels the mystery of stem cells and shows whatís at stake in the controversy over using them for research. He describes the emerging science of human cloningóthe most radical technology in historyóand shows how it moves forward inexorably against the moral consensus of the world. But at the core of this highly readable and carefully researched book is a report on the gargantuan ìBig Biotechî industry and its supporters in the universities and the science and bioethics establishments. Smith reveals how the lure of huge riches, mixed

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