A company claiming to have created the first successful human clone has tapped an ex-Core TF to prove its work to an incredulous world.

Late last month, Clonaid claimed to have successfully cloned a baby, Eve, from a 30-year-old woman whose identity remains secret.

After a media frenzy greeted the announcement, the scientific community dismissed the cloning as a publicity stunt to draw attention to a religious cult associated with Clonaid.

The cult, called the Raelians, whose spiritual leader founded Clonaid and whose members run the company, believes that the human race was cloned from a race of four-foot-tall aliens.

To prove their case, they have brought in Dr. Michael A. Guillen, a freelance science journalist and former physics teaching fellow in the Core Curriculum.

He has already chosen a team of scientists who will genetically test both mother and child to see whether Eve is a genuine clone.

After initial optimism about Clonaid’s work when first picked, Guillen on Monday expressed doubts after the company failed to provide access to the clone.

Clonaid claims they are keeping the individuals’ identities and whereabouts secret to protect their privacy and shield them from anti-cloning activists.

“The team of scientists has had no access to the alleged family...it’s still entirely possible Clonaid’s announcement is part of an elaborate hoax intended to bring publicity to the Raelian movement,” Guillen said in a press release.

But Guillen’s own credibility has also been questioned.

“I think he’s the perfect person for the also been questioned.

“I think he’s the perfect person for the Raelians to choose because he’ll believe anything. He has a PhD in math and physics. What the hell does that have to do with biology?” said James Randi, who heads a foundation to disprove pseudoscience.

Randi said that Guillen lacks the necessary experience in double-blind trials to adequately test the clone.

The New York Times reported Sunday that Guillen also may have been biased by a financial motive. He had unsuccessfully attempted to sell rights to a documentary about the test first to Fox and then to all of the major networks and cable news outlets for more than $100,000, The Times said.

Guillen taught in the Core for eight years between 1985 and 1994, according to Core Curriculum administrator Susan W. Lewis.