Toward a new morality

Time was when scientists and engineers were among the world´s insurgents, daring to question the established order¿the church¿and to undermine its teachings by their theories and experiments. But the pendulum has swung, as pendulums do, and today the scientific community finds itself on the side of the establishment, in an age when ``establishment´´ has become a ``dirty word.´´ Now science once again must take the initiative; scientists must recognize that, having participated in the breakdown of our traditional code of ethics, they must offer man an alternative, a new morality to live by, in its place.