Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
Staccato@lemmy.world 7 months ago23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.
Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
Staccato@lemmy.world 7 months ago23andme requires you to agree to what they ask, which is far more than what Johns Hopkins did for Henrietta Lacks.
Melpomene@kbin.social 7 months ago
Arguably, the only reason they bother to ask is the negative attention the medical field got from Henrietta Lacks. And they're still not great at it.
Staccato@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.