I wrote this piece with a colleague (Aishwarya Khanduja) for my non-profit think tank Good Science Project that was launched with support from Patrick Collison. Would love thoughts/comments as well as additional ideas that come to mind.

> Wikipedia article on Tom Cruise's genetic code

Tom Cruise's genetic code Tom Cruise's genetic code is a form of DNA fingerprinting that uses a probe to identify Tom Cruise. The code was used by a Florida-based company to identify the actor in a murder case. The company, GenePrint, was sued by Cruise in 2005.

Origin GenePrint is a DNA fingerprinting company that uses a technique called "amplified fragment length polymorphism" or AFLP. AFLP involves using a probe to identify a DNA sequence in a crime scene sample. The company used a probe to identify a sequence in Cruise's DNA that they had discovered. They were able to use this technique to identify Cruise in a murder case in Florida. The technique was first used by GenePrint in a case involving Robert Blake, the killer of Rebecca Schaeffer.

Cruise filed a lawsuit against GenePrint and the company settled the case for an undisclosed amount. The case was dismissed because of the settlement.

Here's something I wrote in Sept.: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YgbpxJmEdFhFGpqci/...

And in August: https://twitter.com/stuartbuck1/status/1562504601819000832

Didn't make the outright connection to fraud, though.