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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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Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) politicize everything.
1 posted on 12/10/2017 8:36:40 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

I sense a class action lawsuit!


2 posted on 12/10/2017 8:41:45 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: Enlightened1

What a horrible predicament, to be perpetrating exactly the thing you think you’re fighting against. And don’t have the mind to perceive it.


3 posted on 12/10/2017 8:42:07 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Cowboy Bob

I think it’s funny.


4 posted on 12/10/2017 8:43:06 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Enlightened1

FOUND:
the lab that confirmed Rachel Dolezal’s claims.


5 posted on 12/10/2017 8:43:23 AM PST by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Enlightened1

Hopefully sued out of business for such behavior.


6 posted on 12/10/2017 8:43:30 AM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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To: Enlightened1

The real racists are the ones who call everyone else racist. They really are horrible people.

JoMa


7 posted on 12/10/2017 8:43:57 AM PST by joma89
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To: Enlightened1
WHAT?

Isn't ANYONE interested in truth for its own sake any more?????

This is ridiculous!

Anyone faking these things--for any reason--should be put out of business. I would be furious if I paid $100 or so for faked test results!

8 posted on 12/10/2017 8:44:36 AM PST by Savage Beast (Leftists hate TRUTH! TRUTH is the bete noire that haunts their paranoia!)
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To: Enlightened1

It’s fake all the way down.


9 posted on 12/10/2017 8:45:05 AM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a corrupt partisan organization)
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To: reasonisfaith

This not just a social predicament. The relationship between race and health is affected too. Research data bases are no longer valid. Oh brother!


10 posted on 12/10/2017 8:45:25 AM PST by Rapscallion (Politics just makes us hate each other. It's un-christian and un-American)
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To: Enlightened1
In a recent interview with Cracked

Cracked? Isn't that a humor website?

11 posted on 12/10/2017 8:48:33 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: Savage Beast

I had test done by 23 and Me and National Geographic and the result on my ancestory was different by a lot. I’m still confused as to who I am.


12 posted on 12/10/2017 8:49:00 AM PST by magua
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To: Enlightened1

I did Ancestry dot com and got the “>1% african” .

This is great news!

So do I qualify for Affirmative Action?

Should I apply to Harvard?

Maybe I’ll run for the Senate!


13 posted on 12/10/2017 8:50:44 AM PST by JPJones (Who is FOR tariffs? George Washington, Ronald Reagan and Me.)
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To: Enlightened1

Pocahontas Warren better submit to all of these fake services to see if she can hit up on having Cherokee ancestry. I’m sure if she carefully marked the sample as from Senator Elizabeth Warren she would have her Cherokee ancestry confirmed.


14 posted on 12/10/2017 8:51:10 AM PST by Religion and Politics (It's Morning in America)
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To: magua

As long as you’re not confused on what gender you are, you’ll be ok.


15 posted on 12/10/2017 8:51:22 AM PST by BipolarBob (At one time I held the world record as the worlds youngest person on the planet.)
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To: reasonisfaith
What a horribly written article...

Morgan and his colleagues were caught between a rock and a really-want-to-mess-with-racists place.

Who the hell is Morgan and what company does he work for? Nowhere in the article is there a mention of exactly which companies screwed with the resuls.

Ancestry.com and 23andMe are mentioned but neither is named as the company that actually did it.
"DNA Testing Companies Like 23andme Admit..." is not the same as saying "DNA Testing Company 23andme Admits..."

16 posted on 12/10/2017 8:52:08 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Ban pre-shredded cheese now! Make America Grate Again.)
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To: BipolarBob

I have a good grip on my gender.


17 posted on 12/10/2017 8:52:33 AM PST by magua
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To: Enlightened1

But now think of all those minority only scholarships, jobs, and set asides that JUST OPENED UP!


18 posted on 12/10/2017 8:54:35 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Cowboy Bob

What about the police cases where they have obtained a suspects DNA from these companies? More evidence to throw out.


19 posted on 12/10/2017 8:55:24 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: Enlightened1

Looks like a case tailor-made for the Federal Trade Commission.

Break them!


20 posted on 12/10/2017 8:56:11 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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