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    1 year ago

    23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

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        Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.