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Re:Human reproductive cloning: The curious incident of the d... by arbitrage on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @12:45PM (#22425300)
> So I don't really buy this common internet "if it happened, we'd know about it" meme that secrets are so hard to keep.

Another data point: The Manhattan Project. It was large, involved a ton of people, and still managed to keep a lot of secrecy around itself for some time.

Likewise, the Guatemala syphilis experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiments

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Re:Human reproductive cloning: The curious incident of the d... by philipkglass on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @04:50PM (#22427742)
The Manhattan Project started in 1942, was penetrated by Soviet spies no later than 1943 (Klaus Fuchs), and was known to the whole world by 1945. It's not a great example of extended secret-keeping.
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