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There is going to be a news article on the local NBC news about plotting your "family tree" by your DNA. The downside that i see to this is that you will be able to "see" what your racial heritage is, and if we can scientifically and biologically plot our racial heritage in a way that is more than skin deep, we risk Nazi-level studies "proving" that some races are superior to others by matching up grades, IQs , and test scores with racial DNA markers.
DNA Ancestry Project
Sure, that is not the "intent" of such projects, but that was also not the intent of scientists in Weimar Germany when they began to do serious studies on the origins of homosexuality. Their intentions were innocent and genuine, so thousands of men signed up to participate in the studies. Little did they know, ten years later an angry man with an ugly moustace would use the studies to round these men up and ship them off to death camps...
DNA Ancestry Project
Sure, that is not the "intent" of such projects, but that was also not the intent of scientists in Weimar Germany when they began to do serious studies on the origins of homosexuality. Their intentions were innocent and genuine, so thousands of men signed up to participate in the studies. Little did they know, ten years later an angry man with an ugly moustace would use the studies to round these men up and ship them off to death camps...
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