Patrick Kimbrough..... Feel free to use it because I apparently do not own it, corporations own it and can sell it to anyone they feel would benefit from knowing it. It shocks me to know that there is not really a way to protect yourself from having your name used at any point in time. I mean, celebrities are always talking about a right to privacy but, since they are public figures, they forgo that right. The question becomes though, do private citizens have a right to not have their name used? The answer is no, just ask Mr. Avrahami. He found out the hard way that names do not constitute the person and, therefor, are not protected. Kinda scary.
Iceland is a very isolated country. It is in the middle of the north Atlantic ocean and there aren't very many people that immigrate there. With just over a quarter million people who mostly share a common 20,000 ancestors, it is a geneticists dream! That is why deCODE was developed. I find it interesting that this program could help solve the mysteries of many diseases and help prevent them from occurring in the future. The thing that I found the most shocking was that there were only 9,000 people that opted out of the study. I guess that Iceland is a more collectivist society than the USA but I did not expect a number that low. That would be like my home town opting out..... that's not a lot of people. Anyways, I think that it is great that they are tracking peoples DNA because it may lead to numerous breakthroughs in medicine. Who knows, they might cure cancer from this project... I think that my DNA is worth curing cancer.
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Good so if I start a clothing line and call it Kimbrough Klothing you won't sue me! There could possbly be a way to protect your name so that no one can use it, and I think Prince actually did it. Maybe if we all had names that were symbols that no one could pronounce we would all be protected! Seriously though, I really didn't enjoy reading that part of the chapter. I definitely found the genetics portion to be much more interesting. And yes my DNA is worth the cure for cancer as well and I would not ask for money for it.
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