Religious and insurance concerns are already eroding public trust in genetics.

Evidence

Partly because of conflicts motivated by religious views and partly because of concern over the value to insurers of genetic information on individuals, this is already happening. See the report on a recent survey in the United Kingdom (“Survey Shows Public Concern over Biology,” Nature, 8 March 2001, 138–39). — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1022

Categorization

• XREF: Public resistance to genetic information flows connects to Hardin’s point that trust depends on how knowledge is deployed and who benefits.