# The looming crisis in human genetics

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**Created:** [December 1, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-looming-crisis-in-human-genetics/519571 "2009-12-01T09:22:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chen019](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f19dbf/32.png) [@Chen019](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chen019)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-looming-crisis-in-human-genetics/519571/1 "2009-12-01T09:22:53Z")

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Interesting article about potential future findings & taking an enlightened approach to them. Something Peter Singer & Steven Pinker have also touched on.

_Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than feared about human evolution and inequality, including genetic differences between classes, ethnicities and races…_

> **[The looming crisis in human genetics](https://www.economist.com/news/2009/11/13/the-looming-crisis-in-human-genetics)**
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> Some awkward news ahead

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