Oh, why do they always have to say he's from Lexington?

Our most infamous citizen is probably Dr Panos Zavos, a fertility expert (although certainly not one I'd like to visit) who has been working on human cloning and now claims to have taken DNA from people killed in car accidents and implanted them in cow eggs.

Oh, yes, just what we'd like, little undead minotaurs.

Mind you, this is from a man whose other main claim this year--that he had implanted a cloned human into a woman's womb--was later recanted. Maybe he was low on cash and needed a little media interest.

Sigh. It hurts the brain. And as one friend pointed out, from a Jewish point of view, if you can't mix your milk and meat, or your linen and wool, what happens if you mix a human and a cow? Somwhere I think we're sowing the seeds of our destruction. Do scientists not read the legends? Even if you don't believe in divine retribution, there's always hubristic tinkering with the world to the point where it convulses into chaos. Cloning is a step there, and beyond the ethics, the idea of farming organs, and all that, it's also just so wrong to give parents hope of children reborn, etc. Grrrr.

Oh, and what does this mean? I've seen it in several reports, and it didn't make any sense:

using DNA taken from a dummy and nasal extractor belonging to a baby who died

I could see DNA from a baby coming from a nasal extractor--I guess they mean the suction thing--but where do dummies come into birthing? Any ideas?