"The Fortune Teller" by Kenneth S. Kosik, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.13-17.
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The Fortune Teller
"Will the secrets of genetic destiny bring comfort or only
more sorrow to a remote land ravaged by violence?"
The Fortune Teller, Kenneth S. Kosik, The Sciences, Jul/Aug 1999, pp.13-17.
Kenneth S. Kosik is a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and an attending physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, where he was a cofounder of the Memory Disorders Clinic. In October of 1992, he was introduced …
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…of this genetic makeup will have profound impacts on our lives. He says "We stand poised to be expelled from an Eden of genetic ignorance into a society where every talent and weakness, every wrinkle and freckle may be predicted from our genomes." He also warns of genetic discrimination, and even goes as far as to suggest that "... the knowledge of our genetic destiny will rob us first of opportunity, and later of all hope."
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