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Earlier I posted a story that had been circulating in the news circuit about Professor Church’s intentions to “create a Neanderthal baby, if I can find a willing woman.” But, cosmiccache brought to my attention that the quote, among others in the article, are false.

Woman NOT Wanted to make Neanderthal Clone Baby, Misquoted Harvard Prof George Church

Harvard University genetics professor George M. Church says media reports have fabricated quotes attributed to him.  

The sensational quotes and reports claimed that Church was looking for a woman to serve as a surrogate to carry a Neanderthal baby.  Church did give an interview to German publication Der Spiegel discussing, in part, the possibilities of cloning Neanderthals.

But, oddly, news outlets including the UK Telegraph published quotes that didn’t appear in the English-language version of the interview and attributed them to Der Spiegel.  Church told iMediaEthics that this case of the media misrepresenting his words is a “litmus test as to which news providers check their sources.”

“If someone is keeping score, how many readers would change their media source?” Church asked.

For example,theUK Telegraph, Fox News and Australia’s News.com.au all published quotes that Church identified as “fabricated."  The fake quotes are:

• "I can create a Neanderthal baby, if I can find a willing woman.”
• “I have already managed to attract enough DNA from fossil bones”.  

“Neither of these is an actual quote, despite quotation marks and the word ‘I,’” Church told iMediaEthics by email. “I have never 'attracted’ nor 'extracted’ DNA from any fossil bones.”

Read more- Article on misquote with George Church

• Also,here is the accurate English version of the German publication Der Spiegel discussing, in part, the possibilities of cloning Neanderthals.

cosmiccache:

asexyanthropologist:

Wanted: ‘Adventurous woman’ to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby

They’re usually thought of as a brutish, primitive species. So what woman would want to give birth to a Neanderthal baby?

Yet this incredible scenario is the plan of one of the world’s leading geneticists, who is seeking a volunteer to help bring man’s long-extinct close relative back to life. Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School believes he can reconstruct Neanderthal DNA and resurrect the species which became extinct 33,000 years ago.
His scheme is reminiscent of Jurassic Park but, while in the film dinosaurs were created in a laboratory, Professor Church’s ambitious plan requires a human volunteer. He said his analysis of Neanderthal genetic code using samples from bones is complete enough to reconstruct their DNA.
He said: ‘Now I need an adventurous female human… It depends on a hell of a lot of things, but I think it can be done.’
Professor Church’s plan would begin by artificially creating Neanderthal DNA based on genetic code found in fossil remains. He would put this DNA into stem cells. These would be injected into cells from a human embryo in the early stages of life. It is thought that the stem cells would steer the development of the hybrid embryo on Neanderthal lines, rather than human ones.

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I stumbled across this news article recently and I’m interested to know what many of you think of this.

Professor George M. Church was actually misquoted in this article (and pretty much all articles on the subject) More Here >http://www.imediaethics.org/News/3719/Woman_not_wanted_to_make_neanderthal_clone_baby__misquoted_harvard_prof_george_church_.php

Thank you, cosmiccache.