Blumenthal-Barby et al. (2022) situate their discussion of philosophy and bioethics in the context of (reportedly) widely held assumption that, when compared to the early days of bioethics, the role of philosophy is now diminished across the field-the assumption we call the Disconnection Thesis. This assumption can be summarized, to use authors’ own words, by the phrase "philosophy’s glory days in bioethics are over." While in no place of the article did they explicitly endorse the Disconnection Thesis, at least some of the authors had previously endorsed it in print (Savulescu 2015). Such expressions of collective expert wisdom might be a valuable source of information on the discipline’s history, but they should not be accepted uncritical...