Will the Real Dick Clark Please Stand Up

I haven't heard much talk about genetic engineering since
scientists cloned a Scottish sheep (Haggishag et al), and it kind
of scares me. True, I have heard of some smaller break-throughs
in that field of science, such as organ cloning, (Werlitzer et
al), but we have gleened these gestalt genes, so why the jib?
Here we are with the tree of life before us, and you expect me to
believe no-one is going to eat of its' fruit?
Why wouldn't the Gigishibi Corporation buy rights to a
celebrity before they die and multi-clone them for simultaneous
appearances everywhere?
Why wouldn't some mad scientist living on an exotic island
create a super-human that could take over the world? (Dr. Xdresser
et al)
Why wouldn't someone who had oodles and oodles of cash find a
way to prolong their life so they didn't have to part with their
money?
Why wouldn't we, as a species, use whatever knowledge we have
to save ourselves if we found out we were in danger or dying?
But nary a peep since the copied sheep.
Anyone who was a child knows that when you found something
that perhaps you shouldn't play with, you were always quiet so not
to attract attention to yourself, but somehow you always got
caught. Sometimes silence speaks volumes...