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      1 year ago

      23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.

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          Informed consent laws were around well before The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks came out. I think there were earlier publicized examples of subject mistreatment (like Tuskegee) that already pushed the field to be better.