Scientists are often being accused of lacking ethical standards. Some expect them to evaluate the ethical dimensions of their discoveries before they even start their research. Physicists are physicists and geneticists are geneticists; they are not ethicists. If they try to be, they end up being dilettants. Yet, the implications of the ethical aspects of modern scientific discoveries are enormous and they need to be discussed with real ethicists - who, on their part, need to know what it is all about.

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