27 Quotes by Arthur Caplan

Privacy drives the concern about these databases. People are fearful that information about genetics could be used against them. The very things that make a population good to study also make it tricky.

Anyone who thinks (a) there is adequate supervision of clinical trials or (b) clinical trials at Phase One are not risky ain't paying attention.

There isn't much input from the public. I think there should be.

It seems to me the number one vaccine policy question has as much to do with ethics as science.

It was really a bone thrown out to conservatives who knew exactly what he meant. What they are concerned about is embryo destruction, as if the embryo is a person.

It's hard to look back and remember how surprising and shocking that was -- that human beings can actually be made outside the body.

It's hard for me to imagine it going forward the way it is, given the complete discrediting of a purported partner.

I'm sure there is no threat to anyone's identity. But we are starting down that road.

If you exchange business ethics for medical ethics, this is the result. One prosecution for insider trading will have more deterrent effect than all the seminars, media reports and policy reforms combined.