I doubt it, despite the dumb headline of this article.

The very first graf of the story puts the lie to it:

Cloning humans, or any other primates, may be impossible with today's techniques because of a fundamental molecular obstacle, say scientists trying to understand why attempts to clone monkeys have failed.

The emphasis is mine.

It may indeed be that our present cloning techniques preclude cloning primates, but the notion that it is "impossible" is utter nonsense. It doesn't violate any laws of physics, and is most certainly possible, even if we have to get a little, or a lot smarter to make it happen.

Good to see some science. I know the war is important but life and science go on.

Did you catch that story on the "cannibal dinosaurs" that was making the rounds earlier this week? The "startling" news that some dinosaurs may have sometimes eaten their young made news all over the place.

And you know damn well way: "cannibal dinosaurs" makes a great headline. You know, the fact that countless modern species are known to behave this way isn't important. The fact that there was every reason to suspect it happened in some species before didn't matter.

What mattered is that they could write screaming headlines about "Cannibal Dinosaurs." Now if they could only have appended "From Mars!" at the end of that, it would have been the perfect headline.

It's common to blame the public's lack of scientific understanding for the bad coverage. But it's hard not to believe the bad coverage plays a big role in that.

My first thought was "well, so much for the bozos that have been claiming to have cloned humans". The techniques they've been claiming they used are the same ones that were tried on the monkeys...

Would the cannibal dinosaurs be arch-enemies of the Biker Mice from Mars?