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M. J. Friedrich

JAMA. 2000;284:681-682.

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Cambridge, Mass—Anarchist Emma Goldman once said, "If I can't dance, I'm not coming to your revolution." Eric Lander, PhD, director of the Whitehead Institute/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Genome Research here, pointed out at a spring meeting sponsored by his institution that a similar sentiment could be expressed about the current genetic revolution. The technologies spawned by this radical change increasingly impact society, promising enormous benefits but also raising many concerns. Members of society must grapple with these issues to ensure the science is put to optimal use, and so help choreograph a dance to their liking.

Society has reason to be involved in how science is used because it is party to the returns and drawbacks of research, said Harold Varmus, MD, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who is now president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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