Slow science can be good science

Hold your horses, science. Check that hubris at the door. Can we talk about this whole CRISPR thing for a minute? 

Or so says Canadian bioethicist Francoise Baylis (albeit more eloquently) in an opinion piece for STAT. She implores scientists to slow down and reflect on the implications their research could have on humanity. 

“Science needs time to think and digest,” she writes. “Time is also needed to promote ethics literacy and to facilitate broad societal consensus — where the goal is unity, not unanimity.”

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