A conversation with Joseph Graves; Beyond Black and White in Biology and MedicineLinda Villarosa, NY Times, Jan. 1, 2002
Despite the American obsession with race, growing numbers of experts believe that it is a meaningless concept, at least as far as medicine goes. Dr. J. Craig Venter, the president of Celera Genomics, which recently completed a sequence of the chemical letters in the human genome, has said it bluntly: ''It is disturbing to see reputable scientists and physicians even categorizing things in terms of race.''