Being the Bono of genetics allows Craig Venter to fund audacious ideas that might otherwise be starved of support, but here's the thing to know about Venter: He warps the reality field around genetic research through sheer force of ego and showmanship. The great man act is wearing thin for some geneticists. ( Forbes)
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A Tough Act to Follow
Category: Commentary • Technology
Posted on: July 13, 2007 10:41 AM, by EJGili
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Craig Venter is my hero. He is a visionary and a closer, a rare and powerful combination of traits that allows, even compels their possessor to move knowledge and technology forward in leaps and such a person is bound to ruffle establishment feathers. They always have.
The truth is, if it weren't for Venter, Francis Collins and his band of plodders at NIH would still not be done with the human genome project. Venter's sheer audacity to challenge conventional wisdom and the acumen to gather the resources to develop revolutionary technologies is what makes him dangerous to the scientific establishment.
Venter is all about learning as much and achieving as much as he can with the time alloted him on this earth and I admire him for it. Would that there were more like him.
Posted by: stackoturtles | July 13, 2007 12:12 PM