We haven't always handled these matters well. We need to step into their shoes to understand just what is their problem, ready to agree with their valid points. I am sure that it will give new insights to take away and ponder. But moral feelings are not the only ones that evoke hostility to science. Mr Public is just as likely to be moved by threats of pollution or plague whether real or imaginary, or resentment about technology in the workplace.
Ethics is only one of the concerns that can stir up feelings against science.
Relationships with Governments raise somewhat different issues. Although Governments do represent the public, their views are not reached in quite the same way. For democratic Governments to stay in office they must follow policies and programmes carefully calculated to balance the various pressures on them. For example, it may well be true that the present British Government dare not move as quickly as it would wish towards European Monetary Union until it can be sure that the powers of the popular newspapers won't or can't be used to bring a referendum defeat. The Commission of the European Union is constrained in very similar ways and probably to a much greater extent.