Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

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