"...I sat next to a very cordial Dutch scientist who continued with the refrain that it's too soon to start exposing people to their genetic data. I turned that comment around on him and asked, "When WILL it be time? When we have a perfect understanding of what it all means?" This mindset smacks of genetic exceptionalism, that somehow genetic information needs to be treated differently than other types of health data...."
- Shirley Wu
from Bookmarklet