A similar position to David’s might be that bioethics institutions are bad for the world, while being agnostic about academia. I don’t know much about academic bioethicists and you might be right that their papers as a whole aren’t bad for the world. But bioethics think tanks and NGOs seem terrible to me: for example, here’s a recent report I found pretty appalling (short version, 300-page version).
A similar position to David’s might be that bioethics institutions are bad for the world, while being agnostic about academia. I don’t know much about academic bioethicists and you might be right that their papers as a whole aren’t bad for the world. But bioethics think tanks and NGOs seem terrible to me: for example, here’s a recent report I found pretty appalling (short version, 300-page version).