New at Reason: Ron Bailey on the Rise of Widespread Genetic Testing

December 30, 2008

Cheap genome screening is becoming widely available. Which means that if political activists or journalists get their hands on the DNA of someone like President-elect Barack Obama, they could misrepresent or misinterpret his genetic risk information. But as Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey writes, as more Americans learn to interpret genetic risk information, it becomes increasingly unlikely that such information will be abused. 

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