Posted on 04/16/2016 6:00:27 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell
23 & Me dot com advertises for you to send in a genetic sample, and to receive specialized medical advice in return.
What is the potential for government & corporate violation of your medical records privacy rights, potentially denying you employment, life insurance, medical services on the basis of "futility" owing to pre-existing conditions?
Google query 23 and me medical spying.
100%
I am not sure what stops anyone from getting a gift Visa card, an assumed name, or a business address, and phony info on specifics (exact age, name, etc.)
Has anyone ever done any of these, do they require ID? (Other than the DNA itself)
Considering it was started by the wife (now ex) of Google executive Sergey Brin, I’d say it would be a feature, not a defect.
If this has you worried, forget about it. If you go for a blood test, they have your DNA.
There are a lot of things that are much more within your control to worry about.
Personally I cannot, for the life of me, understand why someone would do this on a whim. If you are concerned about genetic “defects” this is not the place you want to go. If you wonder if you are really Polish, who gives a shit. No one else cares.
Saw the site posted on FR some time back. NO WAY am I using that service.
Except for a very few conditions, genetics as a predictor of your medical future is just about useless. For example, your genetics could place you as having a high risk of heart disease—but you live a healthy lifestyle, eat well and exercise regularly, and never develop heart disease. The intersection of genetics and environment is far too complicated to be revealed by a DNA test.
On the other hand, it is fascinating to know about one’s ethnic background. My genetic analysis shows that I am mostly of Anglo heritage, but I also have Scandanavian, Asian, and African heritage. Amazing! My oral family history does not include Asians or Africans!
Almost everything on your list would be a HIPAA violation. If they did that by the time you were done suing you’d own them.
The only DNA genetics testing company I trust is one located in Israel, and they confirmed everything I already knew.
I just don't want anyone to catch on to the fact that I'm not really a left handed, Slovakian/Arab Jew of questionable sexual orientation. I really need the job subterfuge to keep working for me.
If you eat right, don't drink or smoke and get plenty of rest and exercise, you get eight more years in an old folks home.
Circumspection is looking around the environment for ways to reach a goal. Caution is looking around for possible blocks to the goal.
I signed up for 23 and Me after reading Francis Collins’ book Language of Life in 2010. He researched the different businesses and concluded that 23 and Me is the best for quality, price and research. Google’s money can afford top scientists and machinery.
If you send your spit to 23 and Me in San Jose, then they will send you a print out of your five most likely diseases and other interesting stuff. I learned about my five future diseases and now I have five new menus for daily nutrition. The 23 and Me site has excellent chat rooms and research for each disease. Amazing.
Yes, most people in the 23 and Me community are cautious about government interest. The leaders at 23 and Me regularly write essays about security, confidentiality and permissions. I trust it.
Francis Collins and his team from Cal Tech, Berkeley, Harvard and MIT are look for the cures of two thousand diseases. Yes, 2000 diseases. And they will find them.
Also, Collins recommends that most diseases can be cured by diet and exercise. Thus, please, everyone, sign up to 23 and Me, find your future diseases, find menus for each disease, find exercises for each disease and pray for cures.
Our children got the test for us for a Christmas gift, but I haven’t seen anything about my five most likely diseases. They did inform me about a bunch of very rare diseases that I don’t have, and whether or not I have dimples or detached ear lobes (gee, I didn’t need a DNA test to look in the mirror). How do you get the list you’re talking about? More money?
I know about a dozen doctors who have personally used 23 and me. It is an easy testing method, reliable, and more private then the alternatives.
If the dog whizzes on the floor, send in a sample and see what they say.
“If you eat right, don’t drink or smoke and get plenty of rest and exercise, you get eight more years in an old folks home.”
I needed that laugh! Think I’ll hang onto my few vices, they suit me just fine and I could care less about spending extra years in an Obamacare-run old folks home. I’m real tired of watching everything turn into a steaming pile of liberal utopian crap anyhow.
“You led a rough life and need to stop drinking out of the toilet.”
Liberal utptopian crap will get a guy down but, the booze helps. A man has to have at least one vice and I gave up women when I got married.
Counting on a service advertised on the Glen Beck show to determine if my daughter has the breast cancer gene doesn’t seem definitive to me. I guess I am just old fashioned that way. :-)
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