TIL: In the early 1990s, dozens of scientists wrote letters to the NIH opposing the Human Genome Project, calling it "mediocre science" and a "flagrant waste" of funds.

https://www.genome.gov/virtual-exhibits/human-genome-project-is-simply-a-bad-idea
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