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Saturday, October 20, 2012

From ABC news: "Boy Ordered to Transfer Schools for Carrying Cystic Fibrosis Gene Mutation"

I'm totally speechless.

Read the article and tell me it's a Halloween prank.

Sigh.

4 comments:

  1. antisocialbutterflieOctober 21, 2012 at 7:30 PM

    I am speechless here. Wow.

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  2. Sadly, I have a feeling this is just the beginning of the "let's all have our genomes sequenced" era. Sigh.

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  3. antisocialbutterflieOctober 22, 2012 at 3:04 PM

    It is sort of like our ethics courses telling the MDs to council women and all their female relatives with BRCA mutations to get preventative mastectomies. I got in a lot of trouble for saying "Hell No" too loudly in the back of the lecture hall.

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  4. OMG... it's the unleash of insanity, IMO.

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