Much Ado About Cloning

On Dolly's tenth birthday, Art Caplan gave a great rundown on ten years of cloning and its
misperception:

Some worried that cloning would lead fiendish dictators to create armies of clones bred for war. Others fussed that the rich and egomaniacal would seek to create clones of themselves so they could live forever. Still others warned that clones would serve as mobile spare-parts farms. Need a liver or a kidney? Just carve out your clone’s and off you go, good as new. And what about cloners resurrecting the dead from bits of DNA found at museums, graveyards and churches?

[...] Presidents, popes and potentates across the globe went bonkers warning us against human cloning. Laws forbidding human cloning — which were premature at best, since the chances of producing a human clone hard on the heels of Dolly’s birth were, as I tried to point out at the time, next to nothing — were proposed left and right.

Then it got truly scary. Because that's when the cavalcade of cloning kooks came out.

10 years after Dolly: Clones, crooks and crazies [MSNBC]