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This was said unanimously by a panel of lay people in a consensus conference in November, 1992. When lay people are given the opportunity to make up their minds on their own premises, they are open-minded, responsible and pragmatic. They do as fine a job as an ethicist could, and besides the comprehensiveness of their statements, they have something which a single academic can never get – large political credibility.
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Klüver, L. (1998). Consensus conferences and technological animals. In: Holland, A., Johnson, A. (eds) Animal Biotechnology and Ethics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5783-8_8
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