I can’t say that I’m

I can’t say that I’m very surprised by this. Craig Venter, formerly of Celera Genomics, built that multimillion dollar company to decode… his own genome. I wonder how many people knew what he was up to? Did he sneak in and switch the test tubes? It’s easy to make fun of him, but if you were in his position, wouldn’t you do the same thing? As he says: “How could one not want to know about one’s own genome?” Will people be motivated by spite to determine the genetic diseases lurking in his now uniquely public genome and then not tell him? Or maybe tell his insurers? From the story: As to opening himself to the accusation of egocentricity, he said, “I’ve been accused of that so many times, I’ve gotten over it.” Read about it in the New York Times: Scientist Reveals Genome Secret: It’s Him.