Neither they nor any other respectable scientist would engage in reproductive cloning to create a human baby.
But others, often sober, respectable scientists, said the skeptics were missing the biggest story of the age.
This example illustrates why respectable scientists are very reluctant to go on record with extinction predictions: they can never be proven right.
Really making a man pregnant would require some respectable scientists to take big risks, of course.
No respectable scientist would touch his theories afterwards with a ten-foot pole.
Why, five years later, are respectable scientists still unable to agree on the extent of the damage?
He wanted to be the first to go out and rigorously prove so many things respectable scientists scoffed at.
At first he was scorned by more respectable scientists as a crazy dreamer, and sometimes he still is.
Demonstrations had been witnessed by respectable scientists and heads of sub-departments in Universities.
Can a respectable scientist do this to an honorable brother scientist?