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Rachel Lehmann-Haupt writes about Counsyl<\/a>:<\/p>

Even with the creepy Gattaca<\/a> undertones, Counsyl’s technology could potentially save lives and health care dollars as a kind of preventative medicine. But the accuracy of the new technology is still in question, and it’s unclear if the masses really want to know these answers to such questions — even if insurance is willing to pay. Accuracy and large-scale adoption is the formula Counsyl needs to make its business model work.<\/p><\/blockquote>

“Creepy Gattaca undertones?” Tell me more, Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, about who you are to declare what “The Masses” think. From Rachel’s Lehmann-Haupt<\/a>’s website:<\/p>

I [Rachel Lehmann-Haupt] graduated with honors in English Literature from Kenyon College and attended The Graduate School of Journalism at The University of California at Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley I was the founding editor of F magazine<\/em>, a post-feminist zine for which I received a fellowship from Women in Communications, Inc. I was also an assistant editor to Clay Felker, the founder of New York magazine<\/em>, at The Felker Magazine Center.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Oh right. Kenyon College, UC Berkeley, “post-feminist zine,” New York magazine. I see that neither your subsidized intelligentsia education nor your vagina crippled your ambitions to write about your ambitions to write as a Woman who Writes. Good for you. If not for your harrowing quest to achieve your superior understanding of cultural justice, how else would you credibly justify your plea that “The Masses” may not be ready to not die from Tay Sachs?<\/p>

Oh. Because genomics is “creepy<\/em>.” Fuck you.<\/p>

Fact: any plea on behalf of “the masses” is bullshit —unless your car is on fire —and even then, bet on an accident. “The Masses” don’t move around much anymore.<\/p>

In fact, a lot of idiots seem to think that prenatal disease screening is the de facto harbinger of some lock ‘n stock B+ “Write about a Dystopia” 10 pager for ”Composition and Social Issues” 205. A quick Google search:<\/p>