He Jiankui had issues beyond just doing something bioethically controversial. He didn’t make the intended edits cleanly in any embryo (instead there were issues with off-target edits and mosaicism). If I remember correctly, he also misled the parents about the nature of the intervention.
All in all, if you look into the details of what he did, he doesn’t come out looking good from any perspective.
He Jiankui had issues beyond just doing something bioethically controversial. He didn’t make the intended edits cleanly in any embryo (instead there were issues with off-target edits and mosaicism). If I remember correctly, he also misled the parents about the nature of the intervention.
All in all, if you look into the details of what he did, he doesn’t come out looking good from any perspective.
That’s true, there was a huge amount of outrage even before those details came out however.