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To: alt.religion.wicca,alt.religion.raellian,sci.skeptic From: Goddess of GroundhogsSubject: Re: Rael cloning story was a hoax Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:20:27 GMT Maxie P. Diddly poked his/her head out of his hole and screamed news:5dk9ovo1q4bakqog3fg5hqs14va1h7cc1f@4ax.com: at the world. Ha! Hello, my Raelian Friends! How are you today? I know... I don't like religion, either. It's pretty embarrassing. Don't take it personally, tho. Everyone wants to believe in something. Peace! **** Bonjour, mes amis de Raelian! Comment allez-vous aujourd'hui? Je sais... Je n'aime pas la religion, non plus. Elle est assez embarrassante. Ne la prenez pas personnellement, tho. Chacun veut croire à la quelque chose. Paix! > http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/cs.cs-10-08-0032.html > > Wednesday, October 8, 2003 > > RAEL'S CLONES A HOAX? > By BRIGITTE MCCANN, SUN MEDIA > > Sun Media reporter Brigitte McCann and photographer Chantal > Poirier > infiltrated the Raelians over a nine-month period and have put to > paper the inside story of this bizarre sect > > - - - > > Almost a year following the stunning announcement that they had > engineered the birth of the world's first cloned humans, Rael and > Clonaid president Dr. Brigitte Boisselier have yet to prove the > existence of these babies, even to their own members. > > In fact, Raelians have made fun of the media that gave such > extensive coverage to their cloning story. > > "Come my beloved friends and journalists, and ask me if we did all > that just to benefit from free publicity ... YESSSS!" Rael cries > and bursts out laughing during a Raelian gathering staged in > Montreal. > > Boisselier is also much amused as she recalls the press conference > last Dec. 27. > > PROMOTIONAL GENIUSES > > "When I played games with the journalists ... everything turned > into a circus!" she says. > > In December and January, the announcement garnered worldwide media > attention and mobilized the scientific community as well as the > American justice system. > > Today, Claude Vorilhon, known to his followers as Rael, laughingly > contends that the cloning controversy was perhaps a simple stroke > of genius to make his movement known. > > "Even if you want to think that we did all that only for > publicity, it is wonderful. If that is the case, we are > promotional geniuses!" he says. > > "But if what we say we did is true, we are also scientific > geniuses. In any case, we are geniuses! Wonderful! In any case, we > win!" > > In an interview earlier this year, he said media analysts > estimated the media attention was worth nearly $500 million in > free publicity. > > During a Raelian gathering in February in Montreal, Rael himself > declared he didn't know whether or not the Clonaid babies were > true clones. > > "Brigitte (Boisselier) says it's true and I have no reason to > doubt her word," he declared at the time. > > Alain Bouchard, a sociologist specializing in religions, is not > surprised to see Vorilhon distance himself from Clonaid. > > "The more time passes, the more we are sure that cloning is just > hogwash," he says, adding: "A publicity stunt." > > "They really blew it with their cloning story, they looked like a > weird bunch!" contends Dianne Casoni, a psychologist- criminologist > specializing in cults. > > As for Boisselier, she continues to perpetuate the word of Rael, > her intellectual guide, and no longer disassociates science and > religion. > > "In a convention, they could say anything they wanted to; I was > with my beloved prophet," she stated during the annual awakening > seminar in Maricourt. > > "(Last December 27) was maybe the most important day of my life > when (Rael) told me: You did what you had to do," she says. > > "Imagine had I failed ... failed that for which I was created!" > > Not one Raelian at the movement's headquarters in Quebec's Eastern > Townships can certify the babies who made front-page news last > December are true clones. > > And none of the Raelian women from Quebec who volunteered to bear > a clone have apparently fulfilled that mission. > > Jocelyne, 37, was one of the surrogate mothers presented to the > media with great pomp in 2001. > > She knows all the volunteers in the group well and is adamant. > > "There has been at least three babies, but we don't know who the > surrogate mothers are. "Anyway, they aren't from here. And we > don't know where they are," she confided to me in my guise as a > Raelian. > > In fact, the issue is taboo within the movement. I quickly > understood how easily any questions on Clonaid can prompt instant > suspicion. > > "With everything that's going on, I'm not going into any detail," > a Raelian man answers curtly. > > "Most Raelians are not informed," admits Benoit, 24, adding: "But > those who have to know are informed." > > He believes they should avoid the subject to protect the babies > from the American scientists who wish to take them away to study > them. > > "Proof can only be established in a few years time! All they have > to do is to bring one of their cells in a laboratory and that's > it!" he says with conviction. > > "The silence of the members is the prophet's loophole," offers > Alain Bouchard, a sociologist specializing in religions. > > "In December, the movement was not ready to deal with so much > attention," says Dave, a Raelian "guide" from B.C. > > "The cloning scared many Raelians, given the considerable > proportions of the media coverage." > > "In January, no one was ready," says Ricky Roehr, national guide > for the U.S. > > "I answered a few hundred e-mails myself. When Brigitte > (Boisselier) decides to make her next move, we must be ready." > > - - - > > Tomorrow: Sex and the Sect > -- > "Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all > the forces by which nature is animated and the respective > positions of the things which compose it...nothing would be > uncertain, and the future as the past would be laid out before its > eyes." > - Pierre Simon de > Laplace
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