Neanderthal cloning chatter highlights scientific illiteracy
Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 00:40
in Biology & Nature
BOSTON (Reuters) - After spending the weekend reading blog posts claiming that he was seeking an "extremely adventurous female human" to bear a cloned Neanderthal baby - which was news to him - Harvard geneticist George Church said it may be time for society to give some thought to scientific literacy.