I received this correspondence from a reader about my piece in the Daily Standard exposing the bias-by-omission of the media when failing to fully and accurately describe what is entailed in therapeutic cloning:
“The deliberate confusion in terminology by commercial interests regarding cloning of human embryos for profit could aptly be renamed: ‘Semantic cell nuclear transfer’”
I wish I had thought of that.
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