From owner-cellbiol@net.bio.net Mon Feb 24 22:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!rutgers.rutgers.edu!gatech!csulb.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!gallin2.biology.ualberta.ca!wgallin From: wgallin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca (Warren Gallin) Newsgroups: bionet.cellbiol Subject: Re: human genome project Date: Tue, 25 Feb 97 01:00:16 GMT Organization: University of Alberta Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: gallin2.biology.ualberta.ca X-Newsreader: VersaTerm Link v1.1.4 In Article , Katherine Bird wrote: >I'm reading up for an tutorial essay I'm doing entitled 'What is the >point of mapping the human genome?' but everything I read is heavily >biased in favour of the project. Does anyone have any views to the >contrary? Could it possibly be a huge waste of time and money? >Birdy - budding biologist Although there was a fairly strong resistance to the genome sequencing project at the outset, that mainly had to do with a feeling that such a large project would distort funding and research priorities; I don't think I ever saw a claim that it would be a useless waste of time. Maybe everything you see is in favor because it is a really good idea, not becasue it is biased. Would you say that most of the goegraphy books you see are biased in favor of the idea of a round earth? Warren Gallin Department of Biological Sciences University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E9 Canada wgallin@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca .