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DNA Testing Companies Admit Adding Fake African Ancestry To White Profiles To “Screw With Racists”
Squwaker ^ | 12/06/17 | Alisha Sherron

Posted on 12/10/2017 8:36:40 AM PST by Enlightened1

Who were your ancestors? What is your ethnic background composed of? Sites like Ancestry.com and 23andme have always been some go to sources in answering all of your toughest questions. But how accurate are they? In a recent interview with Cracked, one of the major ancestry testing companies, (which specific company is unknown) spilled the beans on what really happens when you purchase an ancestry kit. While I can’t say I’m surprised, you may be shocked to learn that these ancestry sites aren’t always as accurate as they claim to be. Beyond this, they’ve also admitted to tampering with the result to “screw with racists”.

When Inside Edition had a set of triplets send their spit in to Ancestry.com and 23andMe, they got wildly different results from both services. Neither gave each triplet the same ancestry results. “Tests can be a crapshoot. For DNA tests, they use genetic markers, which are little variations in the DNA one or several groups may have, but others do not. The more markers there are, the more accurate the test will be.”

Shocked yet? Yeah, I didn’t think so. A lot of my friends have taken these types of DNA Tests, and most of them come back saying, “I don’t think this is entirely accurate…”

 

Remember when white supremacist Craig Cobb found out that he was 14% black? Well as it turns out, there’s a possibility that those numbers could have been fudged with.

(Excerpt) Read more at squawker.org ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous; Politics; Reference
KEYWORDS: 23andme; ancestry; annewojcicki; data; dna; dnatesting; dnatestingfraud; fake; fakeancestry; fakegenealogy; fakenews; fraud; genealogy; genetics; getagrip; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; hoax
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To: Enlightened1

I hope the real racists enjoy being sued for fraud and put out of business.


121 posted on 12/10/2017 4:30:32 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Enlightened1

Sounds like the global warming scientists decided to spread their talents i to other fields ready for corruption.


122 posted on 12/10/2017 4:54:28 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: magua

You sure?

You may be grasping at straws...


123 posted on 12/10/2017 5:00:57 PM PST by Adder (Mr. Franklin: We are trying to get the Republic back!)
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To: V K Lee; blam

There’s a Snowflake, oops, Facebook group or nine for DNA test discussions related to genealogy, lots of incredulity about how their Warren family relatives (ahem) didn’t show up on the test. No free tuition for you, hah! :^)

My results matched the paperwork, other than the previously unknowable archaic DNA info.


124 posted on 12/10/2017 5:24:13 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Enlightened1
Just great. . I got my wife the Ancastry one for Christmas. It better be accurate.
125 posted on 12/10/2017 6:03:15 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Little Bill

Me too Little Bill, I was I1a then reclassified as I-M253 a few years ago thru FTdna.


126 posted on 12/10/2017 6:17:10 PM PST by Sparky1776
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To: SunkenCiv
This is one of the stupidest things I've seen in a while. All such a finding would do to me is confirm my suspicion that yup, I'm a mongrel, like most Americans. I'm happily a Heinz-57 mix of most races on the planet. About the only thing I think I might be missing is some Asian ancestry, but wouldn't be surprised by it.
127 posted on 12/10/2017 8:59:09 PM PST by zeugma (I always wear my lucky red shirt on away missions!)
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To: dila813
I noticed they aren’t doing the same thing for the jews, I think it would be funny to tell every arab they are part Jew.

WOW1 DNA tests are really getting good. . . they can discern what religion a person is? Does it show converts to Catholicism, who later fall away and become Protestant? How about Jehovah’s Witnesses? I wond what gene segment designates Atheists? If we concentrate there we may be able to do DNA testing for nascent Liberals in the womb. . . imagine being able to abort Democrats. . . The Democrats would change their stance on pro-choice, doing a 180 on a dime were that little trick possible, of course, what if there were a gene for conservatism? Horrors? They’d make it mandatory to abort such damaged "tumors" on future Progressive communities.

Seriously, all semites would share genes, Arabs and Jews. . . it’s internecine fighting between cousins. The Persian Arabs and what’s called noble Arabs and a minority faction of Jews (40%) are more caucazoid. . . taller, more robust. . . More of the genotype from the northern peoples who intermixed with the southern and eastern at the cross roads that met at the eastern tip of the Mediterranean Sea. Which is what made that area such a fought over and culturally interesting area of the world where ideas met, clashed, mixed, and gave birth to new, better ones. . . Mostly.

128 posted on 12/11/2017 1:57:29 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: jeffc
Yeah. So are Egyptians, but I bet a snowflake would deny that, saying only blacks are real Africans...

There are Black history and Black Anthropology courses being taught in colleges today in Ethnic Studies Departments around the country that insist that all the Egyptians and the Pharaohs, including Cleopatra were BLACK, and it’s a white conspiracy of dishonest white archaeologists, from Champollion forward, who have lied all along to steal the History and Heritage of Africa from Black Africa! They believe it. They even claim the Hebrews were Black. . .

129 posted on 12/11/2017 2:12:07 AM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you racist, bigot!)
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To: Enlightened1

So which service do I have to used to get certifiably black? It would be a big help with future jobs.


130 posted on 12/11/2017 2:26:39 AM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: Swordmaker

Dna tests can even detect if you are American, you need to keep up with the science.

It does more than race, but it doesn’t do religion


131 posted on 12/11/2017 7:31:47 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Sparky1776
This helped to prove family Tales because I M253 is rather localized in England, about 14% of the population. I am still trying to figure out how I am related to a family named Holcombe exact match going back 7 generations or more, I have talked to several none of us can figure it out, a few genes spread about in the 1500's on the left hand side? My family were wool factors and traveled about.
132 posted on 12/11/2017 9:21:55 AM PST by Little Bill (VN 65 - 68)
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To: CGASMIA68
IMO anyone that submits their DNA to any one with out a warrant is an idiot.

Exactly. All this info is going straight to the NSA or whatever Big Brother gov agency. And you're paying for them to do it.

133 posted on 12/11/2017 9:38:56 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: TomGuy

<1% is a legitimate result as it includes 0.


134 posted on 12/11/2017 9:41:11 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: anton

“Click bait.” Really? Didn’t notice it on my end. No one is holding a gun to your head to click on any of them so why are you worried about it?


135 posted on 12/11/2017 9:42:48 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Bobalu

She’s a real hottie!


136 posted on 12/11/2017 9:47:38 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Vanguard17

How many people have sent in their dog’s slobber and gotten back human results?


137 posted on 12/11/2017 9:49:21 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Tucker39

We barf at those commercials. That black woman who cries over her African hat is ridiculous. Wow, who knew she was African??? And that woman with high cheek bones and black hair is.... Native American!!! And the other woman who’s short and stocky with distinctly Hispanic characteristics is... Hispanic! As if they can’t look in the mirror and save $100.


138 posted on 12/11/2017 9:55:57 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: zeugma
I'm not too sure the article is for real -- last year the drumbeat was, not enough African DNA, where's my African DNA, racists racists racists, along with where's my Native American DNA etc. More people are getting their minds around the idea that the family stories about Precolumbian tribal roots were actually about African roots, and that African roots can't stay that way if the white devil slavemasters you've been complaining about were studding all their slave women.

The main thing is, people don't seem to realize that they only got half of each parent's chromosomes, and since there are 23 pair, iow, not evenly divided by 2, their DNA is coming at least slightly disproportionately from two of the grandparents (one on each side, or in some families, well, heh), and that skew continues, because we really have 46 family trees. By the 6th-great-grand generation, there are 64 names, but at most (again, assuming no family crossroads on the way back to that level) only 46 managed to squirt any of their DNA through.

139 posted on 12/11/2017 10:00:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: libertylover
I have no faith in Ancestry.

I did our ancestry long before that company came into being. I knew before that if you want the truth, do the research yourself. Don't rely on someone else because others tend to lie or are too stupid and write up anything they can in order to prove relation with some famous person. All Ancestry.com has done is enable the liars. People grab fake line and keep repeating them. Why should anyone believe anything that comes out of that company?

140 posted on 12/11/2017 10:02:35 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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