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UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders'
mrogers writes "British police want to collect DNA samples from children as young as five who 'exhibit behavior indicating they may become criminals in later life'. A spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers argued that since some schools already take pupils' fingerprints, the collection and permanent storage of DNA samples was the logical next step. And of course, if anyone argues that branding naughty five-year-olds as lifelong criminals will stigmatize them, the proposed solution will be to take samples from all children."
on your b) point, of course you have multiple scientific studies to refer to; care to list a few?
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sorry but the first two appear to be the same graph and they aren't what I would consider a scientific study as in peer reviewed in a scientific journal. The references you listed depended on asking the subjects how much they value religion rather than if they are religious or not for the data. People when are asked for subjective data great pains must be taken by the researchers to insure the phrasing of the questions are not prejudicial and bias the data, one question a a scale of 1 to 5 "ain't gonna get it". I might even argue that quite a few intelligent people engage in things like "Global Warming as religion" and "atheism as religion" and could be add in to further muddy the waters.
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Nothing is 'up' with the UK 'these days', this kind of thing has been par for the course there for centuries. Oh, there's been a little liberalization here-and-there, but nothing really has changed.