Quotes from an interview with his brilliance, Craig Ventener (der Spiegel):
(referring to CV) “a single person comes along and beats scientists who have been working on it for years. It is no wonder they didn’t like that.”
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“Francis Collins and the other people on the Human Genome Project claimed that my methods would never work. When they started to realize that they were wrong, they began personal attacks against me and made up these things about the ownership of the genome.”
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“SPIEGEL: At the time, none of you had won. Nobel Prize recipient John Sulston, one of the researchers of the government-funded genome project wrote …
Venter: … What was his quote? That he and his people were a bunch of phonies who had nothing?”
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SPIEGEL: So you don’t consider Collins to be a true scientist?
Venter: Let’s just say he’s a government administrator.