Nazis and eugenics is like vintage so it's cool yeah? Now you may be required to submit to genetic testing and disclose medical records, so good luck getting rid of that depression without a job!
- Rigorous studies by researchers not tied to the $8 billion wellness industry have shown that the programs improve employee health little if at all. An industry group recently concluded that they save so little on medical costs that, on average, the programs lose money. But employers continue to embrace them, partly as a way to shift more health care costs to workers, including by penalizing them financially.
Redditor links Virginia Foxx, the bills sponsor, with funding from a genetic analytical software company.
On the drive home from Cars and Coffee today, Dala and I were listening to a podcast about the cultural ethics behind studying the DNA of Black Americans and American Indians. They touched on issues of power dynamics, how this information could be utilized, etc. Listening to it made me think about this post almost immediately. This strikes me as something that could subtly lend itself to hiring discrimination in ways that people might not expect.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-complicated-relationship-between-genes-and-genealogy/ Here's a link to the podcast we were listening to if anyone wants to give a listen.
I have yet to hear an argument that makes me in favor of leaving disease causing alleles in the gene pool. Mother nature will select them out herself, and more violently than we will. Call it whatever you want, thanks to CRISPR and related technologies, a form of eugenics is going to come into practice among 'the elite' defined in this case as those with access to gene-editing technology. If someone gets a gene-print of you that shows you still possess markers for BRCA1 and BRCA2 (Among others), you will be less attractive than someone without them.
Agreed, but when I read the article it was like "no, for once it really is that bad."