   What lies within   See article  Readers' comments    Knowing
what's in your genes could be definitely beneficial,
particularly when someone is really concerned about preventing
the occurence of certain hereditary diseases, and I am sure the
intentions of the genetists who came up with the idea of genome
sequencing were most likely benign.  Unfortunately, there are
always going to be malicious people out there, who will,
undoutedly, pervert this field of science by using personal DNA
data to discriminate upon employment, to deny healthcare
benefits to those who really need them, and even possibly to try
and create a master race of "super" humans and so on. I know it
sounds pretty banal, but common, like you don't know human
nature! Humans have always been this way. I think the case with
the Einstein's equation for nuclear fission is a great example
of how human mindset works - he never thought it was going to be
used for the creation of an atomic bomb. And there you
go...Hiroshima, Nagasaki, secret nuclear