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I am vicarially embarrassed for you because of your lack of tact and life experience.



Based on my vote count I think your opinion represents the minority.


As I said, too many techbros without tact or life experience on this site. Geneticists moved away from silly names because physicians found that mothers who had just given birth to a severely disabled child did not take the silly names well. It's one thing to work in fly genetics and another to be talking to a parent whose child has a mutation in the human homolog.

This is actual experience from clinicians working in genetic counseling.

I am still embarrassed for you.


I wasn't talking about the parents, I was talking about the children. Yes I can understand that the parents would get pretty upset.


SHH is a basic morphogen, we are looking at severe neurodevelopmental disorders, the children are gravely disabled.




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