If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.

He has authored or coauthored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications along with a number of solicited reviews book chapters and popular press releases. in Biology-Chemistry in 1970 his M. Arthur Caplan a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania also testified before Congress; he said "I think he is the most dangerous of the current fringe proponents of cloning because he knows more stretches the facts and seems to be wallowing in a mix of publicity and fund-raising that rests on a foundation of hype.

He is also an American citizen who currently lives in Lexington Kentucky.