Talk:DeCODE genetics
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Not one word about the scandal involving Icelanders and their gene samples being taken without permission at the beginning of that study around six years ago?! Come on... That was big news, and the Icelanders *I* know are *still ticked off about it.
I am very skeptical of the latest news from deCode that makes James D. Watson out to be 16% black. Given his age, and social taboos in the era in which his immediate forebears lived, it seems very implausible, for example, that one of his grandmothers or great-grandmothers could have given birth to a black child. If it had been shown that a black person was 16% white, it would be more credible, since white males probably took advantage of black females from time to time in those days. Anyway, Watson's mother is from Scotland, and his father was of Midland English extraction. It is not incredible. though, that somebody would try to whip a dead horse by blackening Watson's name. deCode is in financial hot water and has a history of scandal? That could explain it. Thomas Keyes
