title: Scientists Should Oppose the Drive of Postmodern Ideology.
abstract: The National Academies of Sciences of the USA recently published a report entitled Gene Drive on the Horizon. This commentary discusses the 'Aligning Research with Public Values' aspects in this report, the topic of public engagement, and the worrying ideological shift towards postmodernism which aims to deconstruct Enlightenment values.
authors.affiliation: Cell and Plant Physiology Laboratory, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5168 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)/Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA)/Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Université Grenoble-Alpes, 38054 Grenoble CEDEX 9, France. Electronic address: marcel.kuntz@ujf-grenoble.fr.
authors.forename: Marcel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kuntz
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D033302:Postmodernism; D011639:Public Opinion; D012106:Research; D012586:Science
keywords: engaging the public; genome editing; relativism; risk; science and democracy; understanding science