This suggests to me the need of another Asilomar Conference whereby scientists can get atop regulation ahead of the game[1]. From the book The Gene, "Asilomar w

This suggests to me the need of another Asilomar Conference whereby scientists can get atop regulation ahead of the game[1]. From the book The Gene, "Asilomar was different: here, scientists were alerting themselves to the perils of their own technology and seeking to regulate and constrain their own work. Historically, scientists had rarely sought to become self-regulators. As Alan Waterman, the head of the National Science Foundation, wrote in 1962, “Science, in its pure form, is not interested in where discoveries may lead. . . . Its disciples are interested only in discovering the truth.” But with recombinant DNA, Berg argued, scientists could no longer afford to focus merely on “discovering the truth.” The truth was complex and inconvenient, and it required sophisticated assessment. Extraordinary technologies demand extraordinary caution, and political forces could hardly be trusted to assess the perils or the promise of gene cloning (nor, for that matter, had political forces been particularly wise about handling genetic technologies in the past—as the students had pointedly reminded Berg at Erice)." [2] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombinant_DNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar_Conference_on_Recombi... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gene:_An_Intimate_History (page 231)