A few notes re:

"Scientist who edited babies’ genes says he acted ‘too quickly’"

(1) The word "Former" should be prepended to the headline, and 'too quickly' should be replaced with 'illegally'

(2) Why the hell has this criminal been invited to speak at Oxford?

theguardian.com/science/2023/f

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1) sure, completely agree
2) because, despite doing something immoral, he did something new and probably interesting for other scientists in the field.
3) Personally, I tend to favor reforming over punishing; and I don't think this guy is going to make any such thing ever again, nor that rehabilitating his name will push people towards making immoral experiments.

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