Over at the Southern Baptist Texan, Barry Creamer responds to a recent Boston Globe article, discussing the tug of war between biomedical research and bioethics. Here’s a snippet:
Scientists don’t study ethics, unless, of course, it’s a hobby or they are multi-disciplinary. But even then, they are rarely focused on it. Specialization is a beautiful and powerful thing for humanity. Scientists and engineers know how to do things ethicists shouldn’t handle without adult supervision. But ethicists also address matters neither visible through the medical researcher’s most advanced microscope nor comprehended by even the most persuasive rhetorical flourish.
