Good grief, it's amazing that the Denver police would even need to be fought over such a thing!
I'm personally thankful to the ACLU for fighting against gene patenting!
I have a rare genetic condition called Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum (PXE), and a power-hungry woman in Massachusetts patented the gene despite doing NOTHING to contribute to it's discovery! Well, "nothing" isn't accurate. She purportedly stole research material from Dr. Berthold Struk when he was a graduate student at Harvard and sent the information to the University of Hawaii (involving a professor who later got in trouble for academic fraud over something else) and got her name attached to their later publication.
She supposedly took the patent to prevent others from doing it, but it was pretty clear that she wanted all PXE researchers to go through her. That became blatantly obvious when the ACLU fought to end all patenting of genes and that woman fought them over it.
She always insisted that her name be attached to their publications too, despite the woman having NO education in science! (She had a theology degree and used to be a nun!)
Maybe now there will be more research since scientists won't have to be "creeped out" dealing with that woman anymore!
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