The genome project alibi: towards a genetic reductionism?

Could you imagine Bill Clinton and Tony Blair jointly and virtually supporting the completion of the first world wide map in health inequalities? What about the same coverage of a map, on food security in developing countries? Difficult to imagine isn't it?

Indeed, geneticists are in luck! Ingelfinger rules were not respected at all in the case of the genome project performance we saw last 26 June. Including high tech, the media show we suffered was unique. Not even political appearances to announce new wars have had comparable media paraphernalia. The “book of life” rendered science as the flag of international power. The most …