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UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA

Posted by StoneLion on from the gullibility-gene dept.

peterofoz writes "The students will be asked to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the students' own records. The confidential process is being overseen by Jasper Rine, a campus professor of Genetics and Development Biology, who says the test results will help students make decisions about their diet and lifestyle." No word in the story on just what "confidential" means — who will have access to the results, how long they'll be kept, or what else they might someday be used for. Will the notoriously liberal Berkeley campus see this as a service or an invasion of privacy?

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  1. Welcome by thijsh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please leave your DNA with the school nurse...

    1. Re:Welcome by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 4, Funny

      Please leave your DNA with the school nurse...

      Is she cute?

    2. Re:Welcome by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 3, Funny

      As a Slashdotter, are you really going to be that picky?

  2. Both, of course by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

    Liberals tend to think for themselves, so I imagine we will see many different viewpoints emerge, rather than some lock-step, campus wide consensus.

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    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
    1. Re:Both, of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Please tell me that's sarcasm.

    2. Re:Both, of course by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

      Liberals tend to think for themselves, so I imagine we will see many different viewpoints emerge, rather than some lock-step, campus wide consensus.

      No bias here whatsoever.

      You have no bias? We've conversed before, so unless you've changed recently, I don't believe you, sorry.

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      - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
    3. Re:Both, of course by NiceGeek · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's cute, you think China is somehow "liberal" or that all liberals are "commiies" or some such nonsense. I wish I could say I was surprised, but since I just came from Digg, I'm not.

  3. Re:Gattaca? by Thanshin · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no gene for fate.

    Maybe not, but there's one for AWESOME!

    No. Sadly, I don't have it.

  4. Re:Privacy by thijsh · · Score: 2, Funny

    A runaway joke just turned interesting... :)
    Do you have any information about this hidden key (I suppose it wasn't just named '_KEY3')?

  5. They can have my DNA when they... by couchslug · · Score: 2, Funny

    (cue Charlton Heston voice)

    pour it from my cold, dead keyboard!

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    "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
  6. Re:Privacy by thygrrr · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's named ANY_KEY.