Media Cloning Coverage: Influence in an Unfair Way

December 5, 2005

Wesley J. Smith catalogs media “bias by omission” in cloning coverage in the last week of November 2005.

MUCH OF THE CURRENT DEBATE over what is generally known as therapeutic cloning–that is, somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) cloning conducted for research purposes rather than reproduction–centers on the nature of the thing that is created by the cloning process. Until recently, this issue wasn’t controversial: Cloning, it was widely agreed, created a new human embryo.