> “We were all very much aware of what happened there and what a tragedy that was,” she said in a recent interview. “That made the whole field of gene therapy g

> “We were all very much aware of what happened there and what a tragedy that was,” she said in a recent interview. “That made the whole field of gene therapy go away, mostly, for at least a decade. Damn this sucks to read. To think of how much progress we might have made in a promising field if we could just get over one person dying. Yes it's awful, and we shouldn't be flippant, but we're talking about work to help _humanity as a whole_. This isn't the same as saying "the means justify the ends." This is just saying, "Shit, we fucked up there, let's not do that again, but let's keep learning." I don't know how you ever advance without making mistakes.