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rohit reposted Chris Anderson (in Bay A... [verified] @chr1... · 6h The bioethics circle jerks during the Human Genome Project, which were allocated 5% of the project's funding, were a total waste of time. They had countless conferences and workshops imagining bad things that could happen like punitive health insurance rates based on genetic risk, none of which actually came to pass. Meanwhile all the real issues that arose from ubiquitous DNA data, like accidentally doxing your criminal relatives with your own 23andMe data, were never imagined. It's a condemnation of the precautionary principle. Philosophers can make up all sorts of hypothetical scenarios in a vacuum but it's nothing like actually trying things and seeing all the weird second and third-order consequences that emerge and *then* dealing with the unwelcome ones.
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Tweet by Chris Anderson (handle truncated), reposted by rohit, arguing that Human Genome Project bioethics spending was wasted and that the precautionary principle is condemned by the unforeseen real-world consequences of DNA data.
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