The Raelian Movement & "CLOANAID"

    "CLONAID™ , the first human cloning company in the world, was founded in February 1997, by RAËL and a group of investors .... [D]uring the year 2000, Rael decided to hand over the CLONAID™ project to Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, a Raelian Bishop, in order for her to start working on actually cloning the first human being with a team of well-trained scientists. Dr. Boisselier has PhD degrees in physical and biomolecular chemistry.... In the summer of 2000, an American couple that wanted to help develop this technology in order for them to have a baby contacted Dr. Boisselier. .... CLONAID’s™ first human cloning laboratory was set up in early 2001. In the summer of 2001, following several visits from U.S. government representatives in our facilities, CLONAID™ decided to pursue its human cloning project in another country where human cloning is legal."

    February 25, 2003: "His Holiness RAEL, founder and spiritual leader of the Raelian Movement, has just asked Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, who is in charge of the CLONAID project and who has announced the birth of the first 5 cloned babies, to create a new company involved in the development of 'artificial wombs'.  His Holiness RAEL, who is also Brigitte Boisselier's spiritual guide and had set up a team that built a cloning machine which is currently exposed in a Museum in London, has asked her to set up a team that will be in charge of launching a project called "SURROGAID" whose main goal will be to create the first artificial womb that will be called "BABYTRON". This artificial womb will allow parents who wish to have a child through cloning to no longer worry about the need to have a surrogate mother. "BABYTRON" will enable the growth of a child, cloned or not, from its conception to birth and this, entirely in a machine that will provide the foetus with all the nutritional elements and the stimuli required for its development. Then, the machine will also allow the growth of completely new animals and ultimately, the growth of entirely synthetic human beings such as the ones that were once created by the Elohim when they created the first humans."

COMMENTARY: Attempts to verify the truth of the claims by CLONAID have been unsucessful. Under legal questioning, Dr. Boisselier admitted to never having seen the alleged human "clones" nor having performed any genetic tests to verify their authenticity [the "parents" purportedly denied access for this purpose].

DISCLAIMER: The material quoted above is taken directly from the Clonaid website (emphasis added), and is not intended to support the claims therein.