That truth has not stopped any number of journalists from dragging down Dr. Frankenstein's good name, although it is quite understandable why they might try. Unlike journalists, scientists have been given years to mull over the implications of applying the cloning technique to humankind. President Clinton's panel of experts has three months. Journalists had about four hours after the news came out, and, face it, everyone's seen the movie. Actually, the work of the Scottish scientists and Victor Frankenstein could not have been more different.
Cloning involves producing genetic copies.
You might say he was into recycling. The Frankenstein method thus poses fewer risks than cloning. One of the big concerns about cloning is that it creates genetically identical beings that would have the same susceptibility to disease. A herd of cattle cloned from the same parent could therefore be wiped out by one bad bug. By contrast, Frankenstein's monster was nothing if not genetically diverse.