That there has been a status quo of utter ethical failures in discovery after discovery isn’t really a satisfying reason re: not interrogating the ethics of our science.

This seems like an appropriate place to leave this. I read Jezebel and gawker like a diabetic takes insulin, which is to say compulsively, multiple times a day. I even find myself reading through the comments sections once I’ve read all the articles because I want more. I like this place a lot.

This is one of the things that scares me the most about teams of scientists modifying embryos, the release of transgenic animals into the environment, the hard-on that everyone seems to have for Crispr (a system that makes it suuuuuuper easy to snip bad genes out of living cells).... We haven’t tested these things, we…