Poll: Public understands less about research cloning
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What's also interesting is comparing the two different wordings the pollsters asked this question. They've always asked for sentiment concerning "human cloning technology IF it is used ONLY to help medical research develop new treatments for disease," and this yields a six percent net opposition - the same as in 2002. In the last two years, VCU also asked about "human cloning technology IF it is used to create human embryos that will provide stem cells for human therapeutic purposes," which this year gave a 22 point net negative. Why such a difference? The first question mentions neither "embryos" nor "stem cells," which have negative connotations. And it also used the more positive "develop new treatments" instead of "for therapeutic purposes."
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