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XPrize Pulls Plug On $10 Million Genomics Competition
sciencehabit writes "The XPrize Foundation has scrapped its high-profile $10 million genomics challenge set for next month after attracting only two competitors to the sequencing contest. The Archon Genomics XPRIZE began with much fanfare 7 years ago with the aim of boosting medical genomics by offering a $10 million award to the first team to sequence 100 human genomes in 10 days for no more than $10,000 each. After complaints about the tight deadline and unclear judging criteria, the foundation revised the rules in October 2011: The objective was to sequence the genomes of 100 centenarians with high accuracy and 98% completeness within 30 days for $1000 or less. Interest was tepid, however, and only two of the eight contenders in the original contest registered by the 31 May deadline — the company Ion Torrent, and George Church's lab at Harvard University."
What we need is some kind of genetic weapon that attacks specific races. Imagine if you will, a virus that attacks and kills spics and/or negroes and/or muslims. It would be like a comb, a comb which groomed away the hominid lice that infect decent societies. It would leave the decent, productive, producers of wealth untouched. It would wisk away the societal parasites like negroes and spics who leech of us all, sucking the treasury and taxpayer dry. No more EBT cards. No more "Section 8" housing. No more WIC vouchers. No more medicaid. No more parasites. Just brew up and release a virus that will clean them out. That IS what the XPrize should foster and incubate.