Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
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