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•• 2017-04-11 21:07:51 ••
So I clicked on that link -- for purely scientific purposes, of course -- because I had this witty Instapundit headline pop immediately into my brain.
You can imagine my disappointment then when the actual headline over at Slate turned out to be "Should You Be Able to Patent an Organism?"
That's almost totally different.
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