ESSAY
"Publicizing Science"

Categories

Jina Kim

April 15, 2003

World

Politics

Science

Technology

Biotechnology

Cafe Scientifique

Media

Social determinism

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"On April 14, 2003 the human genome project was declared to be over and the genome completed.  After twelve years and nearly $3 billion, scientists have produced a genome that “can be used out of the box… without extra resequencing” (4/15/2003, F1, “Once Again, Scientists Say Human Genome is Complete”)....
...With all the fanfare, this same standard is not being applied to the genome.  With such obviously missing sections and scientific skepticism, the genome cannot be considered perfectly completed."

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