ABSTRACT
RYAN: But some of the evils of today might be considered not so evil further down the road depending on how society figures it out.
ROSALYN: Is there any scientific inquiry that you would judge to be inherently bad? RYAN: It’s difficult to say because, it depends. Say somebody is trying to dis-
cover the most lethal toxin. That process alone would be considered evil. But how about the person who is studying chemistry and just trying to understand reactions? If the work were driven solely for destructive, morally questionable purposes, then certainly I would question those motives. But I don’t question the motives of a pure research project, because that is for the purposes of discovery and creativity. Even if it just so happens that they are using certain molecules, which in this combination could make the human race extinct. To the scientist, that’s not the desire.
