Yeah, the worst thing about this whole situation, to me, is...

The news media played completely into this crackpot's hand, so the "major news event" that was plastered all over TV screens a couple weeks ago is all that the public remembers.

The fact that the news agencies are embarrassed about over-reporting a hoax and therefore won't "headline" the story about the Raelians refusing the tests, doesn't help. As well as the fact that the Raelians have now "stolen the thunder" out of the first-human-clone story, and when it really DOES happen (which will be pretty soon I think) it'll be under-reported instead of over-reported.

So even when someone does manage to successfully clone a human, when people think of "the first human clone", they're going to think of the hoaxing trouser snake Rael instead. What a scumbag.