Comments on: Raelian Movement Mulling Plans for 'Macaqaid'–the First Monkey-Cloning Company? http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071114/monkey-clones/ by John Paczkowski Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:18:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Thomas Kaenzig http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071114/monkey-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-847 Thomas Kaenzig Sat, 17 Nov 2007 09:27:49 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071114/monkey-clones/#comment-847 In your clarification titled "Raelian Movement Mulling Plans for ‘Macaqaid’–the First Monkey-Cloning Company?" you mention " ... the Raelians, proprietors of Clonaid ... ". The Clonaid project was indeed initiated back in 1997 by Rael who is the spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement. However, the project was fully handed over in 1999 to Dr Brigitte Boisselier who happens to be a Raelian and who leads this privately funded project by herself since many years and there are absolutely no financial links between Rael / the Raelian Movement on the one side and Clonaid on the other side. Neither Rael nor the Raelian Movement own a single percentage in the Clonaid project and Clonaid associated entities. Again, Rael and the Raelian Movement only support the cloning technology from a philosophical point of view. Thomas Kaenzig Director Media Relations, US Raelian Movement www.rael.org In your clarification titled “Raelian Movement Mulling Plans for ‘Macaqaid’–the First Monkey-Cloning Company?” you mention ” … the Raelians, proprietors of Clonaid … “.

The Clonaid project was indeed initiated back in 1997 by Rael who is the spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement. However, the project was fully handed over in 1999 to Dr Brigitte Boisselier who happens to be a Raelian and who leads this privately funded project by herself since many years and there are absolutely no financial links between Rael / the Raelian Movement on the one side and Clonaid on the other side. Neither Rael nor the Raelian Movement own a single percentage in the Clonaid project and Clonaid associated entities.

Again, Rael and the Raelian Movement only support the cloning technology from a philosophical point of view.

Thomas Kaenzig
Director Media Relations, US Raelian Movement
http://www.rael.org

]]> By: Thomas Kaenzig http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071114/monkey-clones/comment-page-1/#comment-840 Thomas Kaenzig Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:28:11 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20071114/monkey-clones/#comment-840 The Raelian Movement has not made any announcement regarding a monkey cloning company contrary to what is being said in a story titled "Raelian Movement announces Macaqaid - the first monkey cloning company" on November 14, 2007 in Digital Daily. The Raelian Movement is a philosophical movement in strong support of all new technologies, cloning being one of them. However, the Raelian Movement only supports these new technologies from a philosophical/moral point of view and is not involved at all in any enterprise offering services or performing research in these fields. Thomas Kaenzig Director Media Relations, US Raelian Movement www.rael.org <em>(See John Paczkowski's <a href="http://corrections.allthingsd.com/2007/11/15/raelian-movement-mulling-plans-for-macaqaid-the-first-monkey-cloning-company/" rel="nofollow">clarification about Clonaid</a> in the corrections section.)</em> The Raelian Movement has not made any announcement regarding a monkey cloning company contrary to what is being said in a story titled “Raelian Movement announces Macaqaid – the first monkey cloning company” on November 14, 2007 in Digital Daily.
The Raelian Movement is a philosophical movement in strong support of all new technologies, cloning being one of them. However, the Raelian Movement only supports these new technologies from a philosophical/moral point of view and is not involved at all in any enterprise offering services or performing research in these fields.

Thomas Kaenzig
Director Media Relations, US Raelian Movement
http://www.rael.org

(See John Paczkowski’s clarification about Clonaid in the corrections section.)

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