Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan
Melpomene@kbin.social 7 months agoArguably, 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.