"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Some critics apparently think that raising any ethical concerns regarding uses of biotechnology is tantamount to reviving the war of religion against science. They would rather have an ethics council that, after fussing a little, simply pronounced its blessings on the technologically inevitable. We, by contrast, mean to give the ethical issues preeminence, while trying always to be accurate about the relevant science and hearing always from all sides of the debates.
