Relatedly, scientists involved in the Asilomar conference are sometimes criticized for failing to include people like epidemiologists, and other health experts at their conference to determine how recombinant DNA research should proceed (I think Krimsky makes this complaint). Almost all of the relevant experts were experts in recombinant DNA research, but the questions were often about how the research might harm society, for instance how diseases they accidentally produced might spread. They did include some lawyers, who apparently had a large effect.