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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: Swordmaker
mtDNA and Y-DNA as well as autosomal testing is more or less the norm now. I'm not down with the geographical origins idea -- all the results can tell us is, the area(s) of the world where, according to the data available to the testing company, other living people share the DNA sequences that managed to make it through the testee's (!) Sieve of Zeno illustrated above. Oooh, I just cointed that, AFAIK! Cheap thrills!

161 posted on 12/12/2017 12:10:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: BenLurkin
why do people pay money for this crap?....its pathetic how stupid Americans can be...

they might as well believe in the tooth fairy...

162 posted on 12/12/2017 12:21:56 AM PST by cherry
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To: Swordmaker

The primary blood DNA sequence is on chromosome 9, not sure where the crip sequence is.


163 posted on 12/12/2017 12:43:14 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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Here's some relief:
fake news

164 posted on 12/12/2017 12:45:50 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: Adder

lol! I saw what you did there!


165 posted on 12/12/2017 1:05:27 AM PST by mdmathis6 (Men and Devils can't out-"alinsksy" God! He knows where "all the bodies are buried!")
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To: SunkenCiv
The primary blood DNA sequence is on chromosome 9, not sure where the crip sequence is.

Me neither, but MS 13 is being deported. . . LOL!

166 posted on 12/12/2017 9:53:31 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: Swordmaker
;')
  • Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
    by Matt Ridley (pp 23-24)
    "For thirty years, nobody disputed this 'fact'. One group of scientists abandoned their experiments on human liver cells because they could only find twenty-three pairs of chromosomes in each cell. Another researcher invented a method of separating the chromosomes, but still he thought he saw twenty-four pairs. It was not until 1955, when an Indonesian named Joe-Hin Tjio travelled from Spain to Sweden to work with Albert Levan, that the truth dawned. Tjio and Levan, using better techniques, plainly saw twenty-three pairs. They even went back and counted twenty-three pairs in photographs in books where the caption stated that there were twenty-four pairs. There are none so blind as do not wish to see."
The correct number of chromosomes could have been discerned, one would think, during the almost 35 years involved in the events above. The most daunting realization is that the double heliacal form of DNA was discerned in 1953, two years before this chromosome count was corrected.

167 posted on 12/12/2017 11:00:06 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: tinamina

Hispanic people are actually a mix of native American and Iberian peninsula.


168 posted on 12/13/2017 9:28:14 PM PST by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: SunkenCiv

My results matched my non id info spot on. It also verified my biological family on both sides. In fact my highest match was maternal first cousin.


169 posted on 12/13/2017 9:34:22 PM PST by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: gracie1

Mine was fine, the closest matches were known cousins (easily recognized through their aliases), but beyond that, it hasn’t been useful for making contact on my “mystery” lines, so, basically useless. I’m basically satisfied, but like so much else, their DNA testing is just a great big ad for their $16/mo Ancestry subscription.


170 posted on 12/13/2017 10:30:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: gracie1

Some but not all. Think Vicente zFox and Cubans, who pride themselves on not being mongrels.


171 posted on 12/14/2017 6:11:28 AM PST by tinamina
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To: Enlightened1

DNA companies themselves admit that their testing isn’t 100% accurate. One of my tests said I was 93% Irish while another test said I was only 80% Irish. The less than 1% totals are particularly inaccurate. Those are basically statistical noise that may not even be real. There are some white Americans with distant African ancestry, although it’s a lot less common than liberals pretend it is. And why shouldn’t a person with 1/32 or 1/64 black ancestry be considered white anyway? (Unless you’re some kind of believer in 1930s Alabama hypodescent laws.)


172 posted on 12/24/2017 4:31:58 PM PST by boxcar4444
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To: Vanguard17

These DNA tests are a scam.


173 posted on 01/15/2018 8:24:56 PM PST by NKP_Vet ("Man without God descends into madness")
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To: boxcar4444

The ethnicity portion is an evolving science. There are tools on gedmatch.com that offer a deeper analysis, especially for non European ethnicities.
The real gold, at least to me, is the matching to other users. Many people have been reunited with family, especially adoptees. *raising hand*


174 posted on 01/17/2018 7:36:00 PM PST by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: Enlightened1

bump. (i was looking for this and the big tech co’s have scrubbed it)


175 posted on 07/25/2019 3:58:23 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: Enlightened1

I’m shocked. /s


176 posted on 07/25/2019 3:58:57 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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