Human Cloning Cult Offers Job to Disgraced Stem Cell Research Scientist 
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by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 19, 2006
Seoul, South Korea (LifeNews.com) — Disgraced South Korean embryonic stem cell research scientist Hwang Woo-suk had to resign his position as a veterinary professor after it was discovered that his research team fabricated virtually all of its research. However, a cult that believes it is the decedents of aliens and has claimed to have cloned humans has offered him a job.
Clonaid, a company linked to the Raelian Movement, a cult that thinks its members came from aliens who visited Earth, has offered Hwang a job in one of its laboratories.
The firm has never proved that any of the six supposedly cloned humans exist and will not reveal the location of its labs.
"We at Clonaid believe that Dr Hwang has cloned human embryos and has the knowledge to develop stem cell lines," the company said, according to a Reuters report.
The Raelian Movement claims human cloning is the first step towards eternal life.
In 2003, the movement was exposed as using human cloning for publicity stunts.
According to two journalists who infiltrated Cloneaid, the group’s president bragged about the free publicity and notoriety Cloneaid received following several announcements that it had cloned babies across the world.
In December 2002, Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier said her group was the first to produce a cloned baby. On December 26, a 31 year-old American woman supposedly gave birth to the world’s first cloned baby at an undisclosed location. Announcements of other successful clonings came in the months following.
The Montreal Gazette reports that Boisselier laughed at a July meeting about the publicity the group had obtained, saying, "Come, my good journalist friends, ask me if we did all that to have free publicity. Yes!"
"When I amused myself playing with the journalists," Boisselier said recalling one of the cloning announcement news conferences, "you had to see what a zoo it was that day."
According to two journalists who infiltrated Cloneaid, the group’s president bragged about the free publicity and notoriety Cloneaid received following several announcements that it had cloned babies across the world.
In December 2002, Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier said her group was the first to produce a cloned baby. On December 26, a 31 year-old American woman supposedly gave birth to the world’s first cloned baby at an undisclosed location. Announcements of other successful clonings came in the months following.
The Montreal Gazette reports that Boisselier laughed at a July meeting about the publicity the group had obtained, saying, "Come, my good journalist friends, ask me if we did all that to have free publicity. Yes!"
"When I amused myself playing with the journalists," Boisselier said recalling one of the cloning announcement news conferences, "you had to see what a zoo it was that day."
