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DNA paradigm

Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test has started a whole new controversy: The Cherokee Nation called Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test “inappropriate and wrong”. Briahna Gray on what Elizabeth Warren still doesn’t get. Elizabeth Warren’s Native ancestry response is a complete disaster. Ancestry tests may pose a threat to our social fabric: Commercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment — it’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die. So many people have had their DNA sequenced that they’ve put other people’s privacy in jeopardy (and more and more). Do we control our genetic information, or is it controlling us? Josephine Livingstone on the new DNA paradigm.