Not much else to contribute to the genetic testing discussion. I agree with BT and MG--we need to pool our resources so that those who succumb to misfortune (genetically based or not) aren't totally screwed. Not just because it could happen to us, but because we believe in a just society (um I threw that in because Mike's digging for justice).
If you want to start getting paranoid, when I was doing my bone marrow research, there were tales (probably NOT apocryphal) of the military trying to get access to the National Bone Marrow registries
in order to create databases of names and human leukocyte typings (of those who were typed, not just those who donated), just in case soldiers got some radiation poisoning (i.e., nuclear bomb/waste/uranium shell casings) that required bone marrow transplants. This would be required in the name of patriotism, of course. Or just plain required.
So, who wants to have their genetic information recorded somewhere? Not that I thought GATTACA was all that great.
Posted by at May 17, 2001 08:28 PM