Y'know Jurassic Park has that famous quote "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" but the text of Crichton's original novel is very specific that the research direction was not chosen by the scientists at all but rather dictated directly by John Hammond, the corporate investor https://mastodon.social/@lentinic@mastodon.gamedev.place/109961295590298984