Another favorite soap box of mine:
It’s Time To Stop Obsessing About the Dangers of Genetic Information
I’m sick of reading about the dangers of the genome. There are lots of popular articles I could point to, but let’s start with a recent series in Time that included eight online features and the Dec. 13 cover story, ominously titled “The DNA Dilemma.”
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All the fear mongering over some emerging neo-eugenics movement, or that people will be driving towards hypochondriacal madness, is highly counterproductive.