Comparing Adam Lanza�s DNA to Forensic DNA Databases: A Modest Proposal

In 1729, Jonathan Swift of Gulliver�s Travels fame published a satirical essay called "A Modest Proposal." He suggested that a cure for poverty was for poor people to sell their children to rich people as food.

I�m borrowing Swift�s essay title to bring up another outrageous idea: analyzing forensic DNA databases for a genetic signature of criminality.