A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.