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'Now They Have Your DNA…'

Nov 19, 2008

On Bertalan Meskó's post about Time magazine naming 23andMe one of the best inventions of 2008, a commenter, Helen Wallace, left a snarky poem. Meskó reposted it here. A quick stanza for your rhyming pleasure:

Some of it will be plain wrong
Or else you knew it all along:
But you can bet they'll make it pay
Now they have your DNA.

 

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