Nowotny asks what does a social scientist do in the land of genomic promise? The promise (or contract) that binds science and scientists together is the expectation that the public have from scientists, and the scientists aspiration to produce something useful. The pursuit was one of laws, the laws of natural philosophy, but with the…
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I've storifyed the Nobel Week Dialogue 2012 Tweets http://t.co/ofeUs3M4 #storify #nwd12 #nobelprize
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Really interesting >> None of the genomic medicine panel thought that they needed to get their genome sequenced at the present time! #nwd12
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Would love to hear a discussion of epigenetics incorporating the ideas of Waddington and Kauffman. Where are the first causes? #nwd12