Although what is being done in 1996 in our emergency rooms bears no moral resemblance to what happened 50 years ago in Nazi, Germany; nevertheless, the issue of voluntary participation in research is a very delicate matter. |
But the regulatory system has been designed for people who want to do the right thing but aren't sure how to proceed. |
I think it's not so much a character flaw in people as it is the psychology of the whole experience, ... It's very hard for people to identify with victims and see it as wrong. |
If the president wants a council that serves as a public seminar in moral philosophy, indeed, that is what he got. |
It's so tempting and so easy that it can be a lot to ask ordinary human beings who aren't saints not to do it, |
People need to learn more about [embryonic stem cell research] as arguments become more complicated. |
Right now there really is no oversight of who is doing what with human embryonic stem cells. The hope is that our guidelines will help to create a fairly uniform set of standards from one institution to another. |
Science does have a way of checking itself out. It's harder to get away with a lie in science than it is in life. |
There was a lot of concern that work was going to go forward without standardized guidelines. |
They shouldn't have done that. That was wrong. |