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After hundreds of years, science has come out of the ivory tower and entered society. Today science is not done with laboratory research alone but by involving different social actors. There are scientists, but also politicians, administrators, entrepreneurs and ordinary people, young and old. Their fears, real or perceived, can put a stop to its development. Their trust and their hopes nourish it and create a climate of expectations that are not always met. In the great narrative of science, the first actors, the scientists, are from time to time destroyers and benefactors, saints or monsters, fathers of the Golem with feet of clay or of Frankestein who turns and destroys. Not infrequently then there are many Sisyphus who continually restart their business - and it is not excluded that in the eyes of some they share with Penelope the habit of undoing at night what they do during the day.