An Ethical Way Forward for Indigenous Microbiome Research
September 2, 2024
(Nature) – Science has a history of exploitation and extraction. Microbiologists have the chance to take a different approach.
Around the time the study was published, Crittenden found herself sitting with a Hadza friend on a blanket under the shade of a large baobab tree, the woman’s granddaughter playing at their feet.
“She said, ‘I’m tired of giving parts of my body away.’” Crittenden recalls. “‘We’re tired, we’re exhausted, and we’re not really getting much out of all of this research.’” (Read More)