How archetypal myths shape the way people think about science
Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
"One doesn't expect Dr Frankenstein to show up in a wool sweater," wrote political commentator Charles Krauthammer, ominously, in the March 1997 issue of Time magazine. He was referring to British scientist Dr Ian Wilmut, who eight months earlier had successfully created Dolly, the world's most famous sheep, by cloning her from another adult sheep's cell.