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to policy makers?
We also -- some of my committee members felt
that we have not clarified yet what kind of a commission we
are, whether we are primarily a regulatory -- suggest
regulation and policy or whether we are a standard setting
commission, or whether we are a problem solving commission
like the Institute of Medicine does, or whether we are a
reflective research organization which is related to
science because that is what our mission is but on the
other hand we are able to bring to that a somewhat
Neitszchean understanding that there are other issues and
uncertainties and troublesome things in the world and moral
life that a commission like this is meant to reflect on and
bring back into the scientific world. We thought that we
might well be able to do that.
A somewhat similar matter is the question of
whose ears we speak to. Do we speak to the President? Are
we speaking primarily to legislators? And I think Harold
will be able to, if he wishes to, address that more
directly. Just who are we talking to? And must we -- in
that same sense are we only one thing, which is the same as
I said earlier.
Now, I think Alta Charo felt that because we
had finished the cloning report and we are getting out the