Heh, look, a science-topic news wire headline that makes sense and is true:

Neanderthal cloning chatter highlights scientific illiteracy

After spending the weekend reading blog posts claiming that he was seeking an “extremely adventurous female human” to bear a cloned Neanderthal baby - which was news to him - Harvard geneticist George Church said it may be time for society to give some thought to scientific literacy.

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