ABSTRACT
I would like to clarify one thing I said: we don't have good mechanisms for taking into account the potentially deleterious applications of knowledge that we obtain from scientific inquiry. I did not mean to imply that an effective response is simply for scientists to limit their own research. My own feeling is that that by itself is not an effective answer because the "we are not alone" argument pertains to not only U.S. science vs. other countries' (that is, if we stop doing something, scientists in other countries will do it); it pertains to the scientific community in the U.S. as well. There are very few developments which would be affected if any particular individual scientist were to refrain from participating. Scientists are not alone; they are replaceable. There are other scientists and engineers who will do the job if they don't. So I don't think that that's the answer.
