Who Missed the Chance to Stop the CRISPR Babies Scientist? Look in the Mirror

November 30, 2018

(STAT News) – We can convene as many international summits to discuss the ethics of using genome altering technologies on humans as we like, but we are fooling ourselves to think that they are anything more than window dressing when we tolerate an educational and training culture in biomedical research that turn out individuals such as He who thinks that an “ethical” defense like “I was just trying to help” absolves him of his clear, basic, and uncontested professional responsibilities to conduct research in an ethically responsible manner.