Protecting the Public from Itself? →
Senator Rand Paul's (I love saying that) earlier remarks were a welcome contrast to remarks offered last summer by members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
Henry Waxman: "Do these companies have researchers that are adding to the information that will help us have these breakthroughs? ... Are they adding to the scientific knowledge? ... If they're all closed down then so be it. ... They don't really serve a useful purpose."
[Parker Griffith]: "I don't think that the companies that are in question here would, if they disappeared tomorrow, would impact the scientific community and our desire to do research into genetics. ... This is nothing more than the snake-oil salesman revisited again. ... It's very difficult to protect the public from itself in its desire to be healthy ..."
That's in relation to companies that help you to sequence your own genome and see what genetic risks you might or might not have. How perfectly, condescendingly, lovely.
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