This story seems to be from the Babylon Bee, but it is not. These "scientists", fully steeped in the mind of a Technocrat, are on a fool's errand to create brainless clones or "organ sacks" as long as the money holds out. The larger problem is the billionaires who shovel the money at them in the vain hope of escaping death. They are all deluded and, like the blind leading the blind, both are destined to fall into the pit. ? Patrick Wood, Editor.

Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been obsessed with cloning animals. Dolly the sheep famously became the first mammal to be cloned from a cell taken from an adult mammary gland almost 30 years ago, in 1996.

Transitioning from cloning animal embryos to human ones has proven far more controversial, and not only because of the litany of risks involved. So far, scientists have only gone as far as to generate human embryo models grown stem cells and clone primates from fetal cells — rather than adult cells, like Dolly.

That hasn't stopped some from exploring the idea as part of a secretive effort to realize an alternative to anti-aging tech that sounds like it was ripped straight out of a dystopian science fiction novel. A billionaire-backed stealth startup, called R3 Bio, recently announced that it was raising money to develop non-sentient monkey "organ sacks," as Wired reported last week, an eyebrow-raising alternative to animal testing. Such structures would contain all typical organs excluding the brain, ultimately serving as a source for donor organs and tissues.