Can humans be cloned?
NO SUCH THING
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4.6 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Why are there so many celebrity clone conspiracy theories? Is there really a Melania Trump body double? Have scientists actually tried to clone humans? And, how does cloning actually work? We hear from an alleged clone himself, and talk to a biosciences expert to find out how feasible these theories actually are.
This week features Chelsey Weber-Smith, whose show American Hysteria covers all sorts of strange hoaxes, moral panics, and odd misunderstandings.
Also featuring Hank T. Greely, director of Stanford University’s Center for Law and the Biosciences.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Annie. I'm Noah. |
| 0:12.9 | And this is no such thing, the show where we settle our dumb arguments and yours by actually doing the research. |
| 0:19.2 | This week, are we all clones? |
| 0:24.1 | There's no such thing. |
| 0:25.8 | No such thing. |
| 0:28.7 | No such thing. |
| 0:31.7 | No such thing. |
| 0:35.7 | All right, what's up, thingers? This week, we're... Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |
| 0:44.1 | All right, what's up, Thingers? This week we've got a special episode. We teamed up with Chelsea Bubber Smith to talk about the popularity of celebrity clone conspiracies. Chelsea's show |
| 0:48.5 | American hysteria tackles all sorts of wild subjects, hoaxes, moral panics, and just odd misunderstandings. |
| 0:54.9 | Today we'll hear about a clone whistleblower and talk to a bioscience expert to find out just how |
| 0:59.3 | feasible human cloning actually is. |
| 1:01.7 | All right, Manny, to start, want to run us through a few clone theories you've come across |
| 1:04.8 | yourself? |
| 1:05.5 | Yeah, sure. |
| 1:06.0 | I mean, essentially pretty much every celebrity when they, like, lose a little bit of weight, there's a new conspiracy about them being a clone. |
| 1:14.9 | So all of the kind of classic ones, you've got Britney Spears, clone conspiracies. |
| 1:20.3 | You've got Jennifer Lopez, Jay-Z. |
| 1:23.8 | One of my favorites, Gucci Main, the rapper, he went to jail. When he was released, he obviously |
| 1:30.4 | was in much better shape, a lot less body fat percentage, you might say. And immediately people |
| 1:35.7 | were like, wow, they cloned him while he was in there. And then they've got this like new |
| 1:41.0 | better looking Gucci Man. So I thought that was funny I remember with |
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