The promise and peril of reading your genome in 2017 (or for that matter, 2018)

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Tests that allow the identification of hidden ethnicity or disease; how could that possibly go wrong in Trump’s America?

ADAPT, Disability and Fascism

[image] I’m a crazy person. I’m also affected by a motor disorder that makes me a very obviously crazy person. Before I went nuts, I was a neuroscientist. Before then, I worked in rehab, mostly focused on adults with traumatic brain injury. Disability is a field I’m familiar with. I’m not in America; I’m on the other side of the world. But we live in an interconnected, viral reality, and my country is particularly prone to echoing American trends. Australian fascism is already obviously …

See also the near-extermination of Down’s Syndrome over the last few decades. Down’s births plummeted as soon as pre-natal testing became available.