Biology Will Relate Every Human Gene To

The Interaction Of The Variation In Our Genes Is What's Responsible For Lots Of Our Attributes And Vigor.

I Have The Same Sense Of The Power And Virtue Of Knowledge That Some People Get From A Religious Background.

The Community As A Whole Doesn't Listen Patiently To Critics Who Adopt Alternative Viewpoints. Although The Great Lesson Of History Is That Knowledge Develops Through The Conflict Of Viewpoints.

I Am Afraid That Those Comments Go Back To The Late 80's. At That Time I Was A Skeptic - The Argument Based On Koch's Postulates To Try To Distinguish Between Cause And Association. Today I Would Regard The Success Of The Many Antiviral Agents Which Lower The Virus Titers (to Be Expected) And Also Resolve The Failure Of The Immune System (only Expected If The Virus Is The Cause Of The Failure) As A Reasonable Proof Of The Causation Argument .

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.