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==Additional skepticism== Scientists interviewed about the announcement expressed skepticism regarding both the authenticity and the ethics of Clonaid's procedures. These included Lord [[Robert Winston]],<ref name="Scepticism, concern over Clonaid's claims">Suroor, Hasan, {{usurped|[https://web.archive.org/web/20090208122644/http://hinduonnet.com/2002/12/29/stories/2002122903861400.htm Scepticism, concern over Clonaid's claims]}}, ''[[The Hindu]]''. Retrieved February 17, 2008.</ref> head of the [[in vitro fertilization|IVF]] research team at London's [[Hammersmith Hospital]], and Tanja Dominko<ref name="Cloning news received with widespread skepticism">[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/32697409.cms Cloning news received with widespread skepticism], ''[[The Times of India]]''. Retrieved February 10, 2007.</ref> of the Oregon Regional Primate Center's monkey cloning project. Scientists with experience in animal cloning have encountered low rates of success per implantation, where cloned fetuses are often malformed and dead before birth. Regardless, people continue to be surprised that Clonaid appears to have overcome those problems; either Clonaid has been extremely lucky in discovering a superior method of cloning, or the company is making false claims.<ref name="Clonaid says it's cloned first boy"/> Clonaid charges up to $200,000 for its "cloning" services.<ref name="Human Cloning's 'Numbers Game'"/> Clonaid has not shown verifiable evidence of any human cloning, despite claims that they would do this within days of their initial announcement. They claim that the parents of the first cloned child had second thoughts about submitting their child to scientific tests after attorney Bernard Siegel filed suit.<ref name="Clonaid exec expected in court Wednesday"/><noinclude> According to sealed court documents received by the ''[[Boston Globe]]'' which were reported on 27 April 2003, Clonaid had two employees but no address or board of directors.<ref name="Little behind Clonaid, files reveal">[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MWSB&p_theme=mwsb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0FAB261163F4679E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Little behind Clonaid, files reveal], ''[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]''. 27 April 2003. Retrieved 9 September 2007.</ref> ''[[CBS News]]'' reported that Clonaid was not a company. Boisselier revealed that in a strict sense, Clonaid was just the product name, even though Clonaid's website<ref name="The first human cloning company">[https://web.archive.org/web/20030524212642/http://www.clonaid.com/ The first human cloning company], ''Clonaid.com''. Retrieved 10 September 2007.</ref> had touted it as the company name.<ref name="Clonaid Nothing But Double Talk?"/>
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