Title: Paid by the Word...
Product review: A biologist at the end of his useful life flirts with NYT reporter Gina Kolata and jumps into the limelight to praise cloning. Pow, bing, boom he's...a bioethicist! This is what happens when narrow, mindless molecular genetics folks try to write scholarly books rather than running gels. Silver mouths simple platitudes about politics and ethics, basically claiming that everything new is good. Even worse though is his science: "it is safer to clone than to reproduce naturally because the correct number of chromosomes is guaranteed." Brilliant! Not. This isn't courage, it is profiteering. There isn't a careful or original idea in this book. But at least our biologist has found a way to stay at Princeton!
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