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Quoted from the first article you linked: Why is it banned? French doctors have pointed out that as the popularity of these tests has increased, they have see
by pif 7y ago
Quoted from the first article you linked:
Why is it banned?
French doctors have pointed out that as the popularity of these tests has increased, they have seen more patients who are worried about the results.
"We regularly have consultations with people because they had no idea what they were getting in to," Professor Stanislas Lyonnet, director of an institute on genetic diseases told the French press.
"They did a test they thought would be fun but they are often actually receiving crucial and sometimes scientifically sound information."
Lyonnet went on to say that people might find out they are "a carrier of cystic fibrosis, they have a risk of having Huntington's disease, they have a risk of breast cancer or ovarian cancer ... This comes without further information or medical guidance so finding it out from under a Christmas tree is really ridiculous!"
Some have also suggested the reason for the ongoing ban is to "preserve the peace" in French families, with many incidents of people taking the test and discovering information such as that one of their parents isn't actually theirs.
So, please, what's so ridiculous about it?
- lstodd 7y ago> So, please, what's so ridiculous about it? Just about everything. "No no no this reality is so frightful, please hide it from everyone" pathetic.
- koonsolo 7y agoIt depends if you want the state to either give you freedom, or protect you from your own freedom. US leans on the freedom side, communism on the other. So I guess it's your political preference if you think this is ridiculous or not. But I would hope any western country would prefer freedom above limiting it for your own good.
- boardwaalk 7y agoThat is not what communism is.