Dr. Panos Zavos This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. Cell Division - George Annas - Boston Globe

   www.glphr.org/cell.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/21/2002   Last Visited: 4/2/2006

   Without congressional action banning reproductive cloning in the United States, it will likely be attempted by its radical proponents - Panos Zavos, a specialist in turkey sperm, and the Raelians, a Canada-based group that believes humans were created by extraterrestrials - long before any UN treaty comes into force. Zavos's partner, Italian physician Serverino Antinori, announced recently in Abu Dhabi that a patient of his is eight weeks pregnant with a human clone. Even though this is almost certainly untrue, Antinori and Zavos seem determined to try to produce the world's first human clone regardless of world opinion and the overwhelming scientific evidence of likely serious physical harm to the child.

2. 2. The Zavos Organization - Speeches and Debates

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   Published on: 12/14/2001   Last Visited: 6/16/2003

   PANOS ZAVOS, Ed.S., Ph.D.
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   By mutual arrangement, Dr. Billings to my left will be speaking first, to be followed by Dr. Zavos.
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   As you will soon hear, Dr. Billings is, if I can generalize, against cloning and Dr. Zavos is in favor of cloning.
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   DR. SHULMAN: And now Dr. Zavos.
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   DR. ZAVOS: Good morning, everyone.
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   DR. SHULMAN: Thank you, Dr. Zavos.
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   It is also not safe, and it would involve, as Dr. Zavos has just told you, a whole kind of human experimentation with all sorts of unforeseen and unhappy results.
   
   DR. SHULMAN: Dr. Zavos.
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   DR. ZAVOS: I would have to agree -- we are not going to agree a whole lot on too many things here today, but I would agree that what ACT has done, it was a disaster, and, obviously, it generated a press release about 3 weeks ago and it went throughout the world.
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   DR. SHULMAN: Thank you, Dr. Zavos, and for those of you who are having problems with your relatives, we will give you a list of States that don't have capital punishment.
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   DR. ZAVOS: Well, nobody could say it any better than the man that developed the first test-tube baby, 23 years ago, Louise Brown.
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   DR. ZAVOS: Well, I can tell you exactly what we are doing.
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   DR. SHULMAN: Thank you, Dr. Zavos.
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   DR. SHULMAN: Dr. Zavos?
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   DR. ZAVOS: Obviously, we are in the business of helping infertility couples to have biological children of their own, be it reproductive cloning or reproductive regeneration.
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   DR. ZAVOS: This is a very good question, obviously, and I think that for our Government, a responsible government, not to be able to debate this issue as vividly as we want them to -- I participated in a debate on "Face the Nation" with Congressman Welden, who I found to be totally naive and ignorant.
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   DR. ZAVOS: Well, we can argue here as to who came first, the chicken or the egg.
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   Dr. Zavos?
   
   DR. ZAVOS: Well, obviously, coming to Washington and found to be a criminal, it is not an insult to me.
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   DR. ZAVOS: Yes, we do have ethicists, and, of course, the best ethicist, as you may know, being in a medical system or a medical setting is the doctor and the nurses themselves.
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   DR. ZAVOS: Let's make it 75 cents. I will up the price.
   
   PARTICIPANT: I would like your comments on this. Is there anything like inherent, programmed genetic cellular death?
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   Let me just say that I don't care how many people currently, under current conditions, say in a poll or come to Dr. Zavos and say I would be interested in being cloned.
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   DR. ZAVOS: I wish that I had some of those people here with me today to tell you that we don't care.
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   DR. ZAVOS: I hope that you are not equating Dr. Kevorkian with me today.
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   The one thing we did do is we switched things around, and we are going to have Dr. Zavos provide us his closing remarks first.
   
   DR. ZAVOS: It has been a privilege for me to be with you again and among you, and I will encourage any of you that wish to discuss anything with me, I will be available right after this gathering.

3. 3. Boston Globe Online / Sunday | Focus / Cell division

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   Published on: 4/21/2002   Last Visited: 4/21/2002

   Without congressional action banning reproductive cloning in the United States, it will likely be attempted by its radical proponents - Panos Zavos, a specialist in turkey sperm, and the Raelians, a Canada-based group that believes humans were created by extraterrestrials - long before any UN treaty comes into force. Zavos's partner, Italian physician Serverino Antinori, announced recently in Abu Dhabi that a patient of his is eight weeks pregnant with a human clone. Even though this is almost certainly untrue, Antinori and Zavos seem determined to try to produce the world's first human clone regardless of world opinion and the overwhelming scientific evidence of likely serious physical harm to the child. Can a compromise be found that can stop the renegades while permitting legitimate medical research?
   
   The first step toward a solution is to understand the Bush administration's position.