Ethics and Embryo Research: Let the Promise-Breaking Begin (Again)

Over the last few decades, as I have debated issues of bioethics and biotech and observed the field, I have come to the conclusion that "the scientists" believe themselves entitled to do what they want, in the way they want -- regardless of whether the population they claim to serve accept what they are doing as moral or right.

Gainsay this, and you are branded with the dreaded pejorative, "anti-science." But expressing differences over ethics isn't the same thing as opposing the method. Of...