I had a professor who was involved in that kind of research at the time of the Asilomar Conference. He said it was all very good, everyone agreed to pause their

I had a professor who was involved in that kind of research at the time of the Asilomar Conference. He said it was all very good, everyone agreed to pause their research until people established guidelines for safety. And then once the guidelines were established and research was allowed to resume, everyone immediately published all the research that they had never stopped working on during the "pause".