# A clone is born...or maybe not **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 3, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490 "2003-01-03T21:04:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/1 "2003-01-03T21:04:22Z")
In a move that is shocking exactly no one, “Rael” has now said that [there will be no DNA tests on the “clone” baby](http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/01/03/clone.claims/index.html) . I especially love the part where he is asked if his company has just gotten away with a great publicity stunt. He replies: > [@](#): > > “I am so sorry, but the sound is so bad. I cannot hear anything,” When pressed further for comment, Rael said that he had proof of the clone, but his dog ate it, then preceeded to cover his ears and chant “LALALALALALALALA” (OK, I made that part up). Crackpots like this are going to give cloning a bad name 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/2 "2003-01-03T21:17:39Z")
Oo, but there are more clone babies on the way, due any day now, and _those_ ones will be tested, right?.. Right? [SUB]LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA…[/SUB] ---
**Author:** ![deborak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc348/32.png) [@deborak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deborak)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/3 "2003-01-03T22:06:06Z")
The DNA results are in the mail. No, really, they are! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/4 "2003-01-03T22:17:45Z")
Oh, shoot! The DNA results are in the pocket of my other pants. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/5 "2003-01-03T22:52:04Z")
Wait right here. I’m going to go back to my house and get them. It will just take a few minutes. Don’t go anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Naz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@Naz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Naz)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/6 "2003-01-03T23:30:27Z")
I’m really sorry everyone, but an intern in my office lost the DNA results…I’m really very sorry… ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/7 "2003-01-04T03:10:22Z")
I have firm and conclusive evidence that it is a clone. I won’t show you for reasons of national security. Badum pssht. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/8 "2003-01-04T07:11:20Z")
Now they’ve announced that the next clone will be born in the Netherlands, this weekend (no cite at hand, just saw it on Dutch TV). I was kinda pissed off that we didn’t get the first one, seeing as how we _usually_ get all the new stuff, like legal pot, gay marriage, euthanasia, you know, that sort of thing. But yeah: it looks like a big hoax. This whole story can only be made credible by DNA tests, and if they refuse those (because they don’t want to disturb the peace of the family, snort), then sorry, no one will believe you. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/9 "2003-01-04T15:52:35Z")
In the story I read, the spokesperson for Clonaid said it would be up to the parents (plural) of the baby whether to allow a DNA test. If it’s really a clone (which it apparently isn’t) this baby would have only one biological parent. Hmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@The\_Tof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tof)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/10 "2003-01-04T16:03:02Z")
\ Oh THERE’S a big surprise! I think I’m gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise \ I told my g/f that they would find some way out of this when it happened. Lo and behold, here you go. Like the guy didn’t have 9 frikken months AT LEAST to come up with this decision. \ ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-clone-is-born-or-maybe-not/146490/11 "2003-01-04T17:47:45Z")
BABY #2 IS HERE: [she has now been born to a Dutch lesbian couple](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2626615.stm). Now, now, now, that has all the ingredients of a tasteless joke: Dikes/dykes in Holland, clones, two mommies. Argh. Someone could weave a doozy outta that stuff. Quick, call letterman! Congrats to the parents in any case. New baby in da house!