This laughable depiction of cloning comes to us courtesy of Jamie Talan of Newsday. In a story on December 16 about the Hwang mess, therapeutic cloning was inaccurately described as follows:
“This technique calls for taking DNA from a donor cell and transferring it to a cell whose own nuclear DNA has been removed. Cloning techniques trick the hybrid cells into multiplying. The researchers say they use these cells to extract embryonic stem cells.”
This description is barely coherent. No mention of the egg. No mention of the embryo. No, according to Talan, hybrid cells are tricked into multiplying.
Bad reporting about cloning is clearly pandemic.
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