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Google Accused of Bio-piracy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 30, 2006 @02:56AM from the ahoy-maties-turn-over-those-ribonucleic-acids-if-you-please dept.

Simon Phillips writes "ZDNet is reporting that Google has been accused of being the 'biggest threat to genetic privacy' this year for its plan to create a searchable database of genetic information. From the article: 'Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week. The organisers allege that Google's collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet is a clear example of biopiracy.'"

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Re:Yup. Sounds to me... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-03-30 05:15 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Slashdot needs to add a mod: -10 ignorant
Re:Yup. Sounds to me... by NetRAVEN5000 · 2006-03-30 12:40 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I'm thinking they're a bunch of fanatics who are so afraid of people being genetically engineered that they go so far as to say that genetic research is bad.
From their site it seems like they don't like anyone who studies genetics - they criticized Mr. J Craig Venter for wanting to study microbes in the ocean and create his own organism. How that's bad I don't know - I guess because they're afraid it might poop in the water or something.

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