UFO Cult Wants to Clone You -- For Just $1,000,000.00!

Claude "Rael" Vorilhon and his followers believe humans were the result of space aliens' cloning experiments -- they want to duplicate the research.

HUMAN CLONING experiments -- planned by an international religious cult -- are sending shock waves through the world's scientific community.

Many European countries prohibit human cloning, but in the U.S. the government has only prevented federal funding for research.

That means private companies could still participate in these mind-boggling experiments, despite President Clinton's request for a suspension of some types of cloning research.

Claude Vorilhon, known to 35,000 followers as Rael, says the time has come to start cloning people, according to reports. "The technology is not at all dangerous," says Vorilhon, whose Raelian movement believes life on Earth was created by space aliens. These aliens were actually responsible for the resurrection of Christ through cloning, the cultists claim.

Vorilhon, a former race car driver and writer, reportedly encountered a four-foot-tall space alien while rock-climbing in France in 1973. He was told by the ET that the human race is the result of the alien race's lab experiments.

Heaven's Gate leader Marshall Applewhite's philosophies were similar to Rael's -- DOAH!

Vorilhon's group is similar to the Heaven's Gate suicide cult, according to observers. Members of that group killed themselves to be closer to aliens. But Vorilhon's followers simply want to recreate the aliens' cloning experiments.

Vorilhon, who lives near Montreal, says his group's company, Clonaid©, will fund research into cloning and also offer customers a chance at cloning themselves -- for about $200,000.

He announced the formation of Clonaid© during a press conference in New York.

A most Glorious Breakthrough for the Holy Church of Science and Technology!

While some scientists say it would be difficult for such an organization to get reputable doctors involved in the controversial research, others don't want to take any chances. "This should be a loud reminder of how ludicrous it would be to leave a loophole to allow private funding of cloning," says Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Legislators are having a tough time coming up with good laws against it, because they don't want to prevent research into cloning human tissue for transplants and other life-saving procedures.

But scientists in Japan took a fluorescent gene from jellyfish, used to scare off predators, and transplanted it into mouse embryos -- and now they have mice that glow green in the dark!

They say it will some day help researchers track individual cells in the human body for cancer treatment and organ transplants.

But a spokesman for the Osaka University Microbiology Disease Research Institute also says the glowing gene "can be widely used in biotechnology in general."

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