It was to be the biggest scientific press conference of the decade.
Geneticist Rick Hallorann spoke to the crowds of reporters, camera flashes illuminating his face.
"The time has finally come for the first human cloning experiment to be performed," he began. "The technology for us to clone humans has been around since the eighties - but only now, after plenty of deliberation, have the many ethics committees and subcommittees ruled in our favor."
"What was their ruling?" Interrupted a reporte…