Wilmut, the British scientist who bred Dolly, never imagined that his work would cause such a stir.

When he excitedly announced to the world that he had obtained a cloned sheep, the world responded to him with basins of cold water.

The British Ministry of Agriculture immediately announced that the currently funded research fund of 250,000 pounds would be cut in half from April and scheduled to be completely terminated in April 1998.

Doubts and hostility towards cloning technology from all sides also made him feel uneasy.

He had to attend the hearings of the Science and Technology Select Committee of the British House of Commons with great trepidation and carefully answer various questions.

He also had to repeatedly tell people that he had no intention of cloning people.

Is cloning technology really a reason to make people feel so panicked? People are most worried about cloning technology being used for human cloning. They are worried about cloning a large number of killers like Hitler, and worrying about replicating a large number of terrible people.

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What's more, some people believe that the emergence of cloning technology has pushed human civilization to the brink of collapse.

Controversy over these ethereal issues may have affected the further development of cloning technology.

People always confuse scientific facts with horror movies and science fiction.

Talk of cloning is fraught with unrealistic illusions.

As early as 1973, Woody Allen created such a plot in his film "Sleeper": a tyrant died in a bomb, leaving nothing but his nose.

His followers intended to use this nose to create a new leader.

In 1976, Levins told a more dramatic story in "The Boys from Brazil": a fanatical Nazi used his Führer's cells to "grow" a large number of teenage Hitlers.

These bizarre stories are more likely to impress people than scientific facts, so when people talk about such a serious topic as "cloning technology", they inevitably add some dramatic plots, so cloning a madman like Hitler becomes cloning.

One of the great sins of technology.

The development of modern science has found some genetic information related to human behavior, but the generally accepted view is that social experience is important in the development of human personality.

A person's accumulation of knowledge, formation of his worldview, and specialization of his character are all marked by the times and society.

The reason why Hitler appeared in Germany is related to the international economic and political conditions before World War II, the social situation in Germany, and Hitler's personal experience.

Even if a replica of Hitler could be cloned, would he still become a war maniac under the current conditions? Even if a small environment before World War II could be simulated to cultivate his militant and inflammatory character, would he still become a war maniac?

And 100% will not become the Hitler in World War II.

Even for a "biological human" who puts aside his thoughts, cloning technology can only copy a similar person at best, and it is absolutely impossible to copy a human body that is exactly like the original blueprint in every aspect.

Therefore, the idea of ??cloning Hitler is completely a "groundless" and unrealistic illusion.

Among those who have expressed doubts about the future of cloning, no one is more worried than Rotblatt.

Rotblatt himself is a nuclear physicist who won the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize for launching the anti-nuclear movement.

He believes that this achievement of British scientists can be compared with the explosion of an atomic bomb. If cloning technology is abused, it will become a weapon to destroy mankind, which is more harmful than the atomic bomb.

In fact, the issues that people are currently concerned about are not the possible harms caused by cloning technology.

The real danger of cloning technology is reflected in the imperfect development of technology.

As early as the 1950s, during cloning studies of amphibians and fish, people had discovered that cloned embryos were prone to developing abnormalities.

This phenomenon that there is a certain proportion of malformations and deformed offspring among cloned animals was further confirmed after a large number of studies on mammals were conducted in the 1980s and 1990s.

Some abnormal phenomena have been found in the cloned offspring of various animals.

What is particularly serious is that some companies engaged in the production of cloned animals have given birth to many deformed giant cattle in their pastures.

The birth weight of these cows is twice as high as normal, causing labor difficulties and often requiring caesarean section.

The proportion of such large-bodied cattle reaches 20%, while 5% are extremely large-bodied.

The deformed cattle were later sent to research institutions for research.

These cloned deformed cows clearly show that cloned embryos are not 100% normal.

The most regrettable thing is that the cause of teratogenesis is still unknown so far.

When describing the birth process of "Dolly", scientists from the Roslin Institute said that while waiting for the birth of "Dolly", they had the most complicated emotions, both excited and nervous, for fear that a monster would be born.

They didn't let go until "Dolly" was born and everything went normal.

In fact, this unforeseeability and inability to grasp the consequences is the most worrying aspect of cloning technology at present.

But this problem is not a problem of developing cloning technology. It is precisely because cloning technology is not developed enough and there are still many fundamental problems that have not been solved.

We believe that with the deepening of research, these difficulties will be overcome.

In the history of scientific development, this phenomenon abounds, and it is nothing to be surprised about.

The most common blood transfusion technology we use now is not a means of saving lives at first, but often becomes a demon that takes people's lives. This is an example.