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100,000 Californians To Be Gene Sequenced
eldavojohn writes "A hundred thousand elderly Californians (average age 65) will be gene sequenced by the state using samples of their saliva. This will be the first time such a large group has had their genes sequenced, and it is hoped to be a goldmine for genetic maladies — from cardiovascular diseases to diabetes to even the diseases associated with aging. Kaiser Permanente patients will be involved, and they are aiming to have half a million samples ready by 2013. Let's hope that they got permission from the patients' doctors first."
Not the OP, but most obvious to me, but on such measurements as:
- Number of people killed due to aggressive warfare;
- Number of people killed due to genocide;
- Number of sovereign states invaded or toppled, and the number of people killed in these actions;
- Attempts to apply ideological politics, in the east and the west, and the number of people killed in these attempts;
- Number of weapons of mass destruction produced, and the number of people killed in using those weapons, and the hilarious justification that such weapons prevent warfare (50 years without anyone pressing the button... all we need is to make sure none press the button for another million, right?);
- Lack of community and spiritual (not in a specifically religious, but general nonmaterial sense) development;
the white man has, through the 19th and 20th centuries, demonstrated himself to be part of the most aggressive, narrowminded and cruel race on the planet. This does not mean that white men are inherently aggressive or cruel, merely that none has the right to suggest his race to be more civilised than any other.
A white map man point to a high-rise block and argue that this shows some superiority over a nation of bungalows, merely because there is some extra technical development required for the skyscraper, but he does not ask whether resident of the high-rise is happy. The most innovative men in the West enjoy space over compactness, quality over quantity, and social over technological advancement, shunning the mainstream production of their countries; it is only the idiot gaggle of middle classes who pretend that the modern white way of living is in any way bearable.