Why We Still Haven't Cloned Humans — It's Not Just Ethics

We've technically been able to clone human beings for almost a decade. So, why haven't we? The answer has way more to do with science than morality. Not only is cloning inefficient and dangerous, there's just not a good enough reason to make a human this way. But making entire copies of people isn't the only way we can potentially use cloning to benefit humans.

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Why We Still Haven't Cloned Humans — It's Not Just Ethics

[yakubyildirim]

We can clone people but not Cure baldness rip my hair

[naptap]

I simply refuse to believe that nobody has ever tried to clone humans

[pocketsand]

I find it unlikely that absolutely nobody nowhere has dared to secretly do it.

[Luke-mebt]

“We have 200, 000 with a million well on its way”

[fanaticalplel]

Screw ethics I’m tryna make Rex, fives, and all my clone troopers

[npc]

Make clones of animals that are almost gonna go extinct.

[_ryannnnnnnn_]

Science is about "could we" not about "should we".

[leg]

I remember when the news of Doly were everywhere. It felt like the most sci-fi thing for me, yet I was too little to understand how big it was for science!

[emberszz]

we got 7 billion humans we don't need more

[lovely]

When they don’t want you to know clones exist and have existed for awhile now, they release videos like this one. Interesting...

[ericpa]

To be fair, it seems mostly about ethics with some extra steps. I could imagine some rich couple that lost their child cloning him or her out of despair to make look like "they brought" their son back", even though it's just a genetic clone. I mean, people do this with dogs and cats.

[jadinhtvt]

They can clone humans they just don't want you to know

[kipsea]

Lmao why the need to use complicated scientific method to make clones, just make hand signals and scream something in japanese and boom, perfect clones for disposal

[dawnbell]

They pretty much admitted they tried when they said most human clones died in miscarriage.

[vVDrewciferVv]

It's scary that people either have no clue that cloning is 100% real or, at the very least, actually believe that "we haven't cloned humans for ethical reasons." Like...yeah 🤦🏼‍♂️

[d]

How much you wanna bet someone, somewhere is working on human clones

[cijoxmv]

Who is “we”? If it is possible then it has been done somewhere in the world... “we” just dont know about it

[KaioBeatz]

Nobody:
That one weeb: ShAdoW cLoNE JuTSu!¡

[arandomyoutubeaccount]

Why'd this come as a result of searching up that line from Jurassic Park, "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they _could, _ that they didn't stop to think if they _should."_

[aysha]

There's not enough reasons to clone a human ?? C'mon, the possibility itself is anough reason to try it ..