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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast. I'm Steve Merski.

In this inaugural edition of the podcast, we'll talk with

John Rennie, the editor-in-chief of Scientific American Magazine, about the crisis in cloning

and its implications for stem cell research. Also joining us is Eugenie Scott. She's the director

of the National Center for Science Education and was involved in the recent historic Dover, Pennsylvania Evolution trial.

And we'll talk to Rini Piva of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

On February 8th, they announced their inductees for 2006, and while those names might not be familiar to everyone, their inventions definitely are.

Along with those interviews, we'll throw some

Hall of Fame trivia at you, and we'll

hear some clips from the CSI show

you're never going to see on television.

Thanks for joining us here on the

Scientific American podcast. First up,

Cloning in Crisis.

We're at the offices of

Scientific American, and I'm talking to John Rennie, the editor-in-chief

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