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NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a book purporting to chronicle the cloning of a human being said Wednesday that he probably cannot pro duce the kind of evidence the scientific community would require to accept his’claim. David Rorvik, author of ‘‘In His Image, The Cloning of a Man,” said in an interview on the NBC “Today” show that conclusive proof would require the father and the cloned child to come forward for tests. But the millionaire father wants to remain anonymous and even opposed publication of the book, Rorvik said. “You've got to have both these individuals physically present,”’ he said, adding that blood tests, fingerprints or any other tests could be doctored and would not be accepted by the scientific community, which has greeted Rorvik’s claim with skepticism. The book, which is is being published this week by J. P. Lippincott Co., asserts that a Marin County, Calif., million aire paid Rorvik to arrange for the cloning of a son — repro ducing an exact copy of the father by introducing a cell from his body into a surrogate mother. The child was born in De cember 1976 and is now 15 months old, Rorvik claims. Scientific literature docu ments the cloning of plants and of a frog, but say there is no known technique for suc cessfully removing the smaller neucleus from a man’s cell and nurturing an embryo for suffi cient time outside the body for it to survive implantation in a woman’s womb.
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Farmington Daily Times
Farmington, New Mexico, US
Thu, Mar 30, 1978
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