Although the questioners were often antagonistic, the panelists and the conference organizers took the intense discussions in stride.
"I don't necessarily agree with the hostility but that's almost what's important about the conference," said conference director Praveen R. Shanbhag '02. "The contention is almost the heart of what we're trying to foster."
Clones, Patents, Ethics
Conference speakers disagreed sharply whether the technology is ready for human cloning and whether such as move is ethical.
"It is egregiously bad that they want to do this," said Washington Post biotechnology reporter Justin Gillis. "It is not safe to do. It is absolutely immoral."
Others were not so sure cloning represents an unalloyed evil.
"I'm not thrilled about cloning humans but I'm not so concerned as other people are," Bach said.
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