Laurie Zoloth
Laurie Zoloth
ask broke hard system
The system broke down. We have to ask hard questions.
challenges practice solved technical theory
The technical challenges were solved in theory but not in practice.
approach beginning overcome people scientists search
Scientists have to go back to the beginning and search for a way to overcome that barrier. Now people will approach this with a lot more caution.
failure
At the end of the day, this was an extraordinary failure on so many levels.
needles problem sewing steel technology
You always have the problem of dual-use in every new technology. Steel can be used to make sewing needles or spears.
impact opponents profound research themselves
This will have a profound impact on stem-cell research. The opponents of the research will feel themselves to be vindicated.
based deliver fact hopes patients promise raised science special
The fact that this raised the hopes of patients and then did not deliver that promise has special poignancy. Science should be based on truth.
cannot imagine science turn utterly
It is a heartbreaking turn for science and Korea. Without trust, we just cannot imagine science. This is utterly unacceptable.
believe community concern depend entirely scientific showing worthy
We depend entirely on the truthfulness of the scientific community. We must believe that what they are showing us and what they say has been demonstrated is worthy of our concern and attention.
age age-and-aging powerful tools turned work
This is powerful work and we live in an age that many tools and technologies can be turned into weaponry,
coherent duties failure human realm subject understood utterly widely
In the bioethics community, this is widely understood as utterly out of the realm of coherent human subject protections and a failure in the duties of a tenured professor.