That’s a slightly misleading headline in the Telegraph, Kathryn. The sheep was cloned: the only question was as to the exact nature of Wilmut’s role (“supervisory”, it seems, whatever that may mean). Disputes over who contributed what to a discovery or a scientific process are as old as science, and they don’t necessarily have much to say one way or the other on the validity of what has been discovered or the process that has been developed.
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Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review's Capital Matters.
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