I don't think ELSI is any different. We're trying to identify opportunities, do exploratory work, and stimulate the interest of others. And I think that's our proper role given our history and resources. We think we're at the leading edge in terms of clarifying some of the issues and revealing some of the implications for certain communities. But ethical, legal, and social issues are not challenges for bioethicists alone.
Answers require the integration of bioethics and hard science.
The bioethicists need to be grounded in scientific reality. You can only get that from the genome scientists. We've been down that road. It's not the right way to go. And the scientists need the perspective of the bioethicists in order to do that.