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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 have been tested thru Family Tree DNA (FTdna), it is considered the most reliable.


21 posted on 12/10/2017 8:58:20 AM PST by Sparky1776
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To: Enlightened1

Bkmrk.


22 posted on 12/10/2017 8:58:32 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Screw The NFL!!!!!! My family fought for the flag!)
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To: Enlightened1

Stupid liberals. They can’t fathom that finding “african” in your DNA gives you the chance to say, “How can I be racist, I’m part Black!”


23 posted on 12/10/2017 8:59:26 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Enlightened1

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.


24 posted on 12/10/2017 9:03:19 AM PST by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: Enlightened1
Companies Admit Adding Fake African Ancestry To White Profiles To “Screw With Racists”

How do they decide which whites are racists that need to be screwed with?

25 posted on 12/10/2017 9:03:53 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Religion and Politics

It would be hilarious if Feaucahontas were to seek genetic counseling to prove her indian heritage only to find she’s more Zulu than Cherokee.


26 posted on 12/10/2017 9:04:25 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Enlightened1

IMO anyone that submits their DNA to any one with out a warrant is an idiot. Including my sister.
She sent me the result of herss and suggested I do it too.
I told her what I just wrote. She went bonkers.
But she like Gildabrand so nuf’said.


27 posted on 12/10/2017 9:04:46 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Sparky1776

Why


28 posted on 12/10/2017 9:05:20 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Enlightened1

That sounds like consumer fraud to me.


29 posted on 12/10/2017 9:06:05 AM PST by independentmind (Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)
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To: Enlightened1

All they do is pick your results out of a hat , then add some black ,LOL


30 posted on 12/10/2017 9:06:17 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: magua

I’m still confused as to who I am....

1st/ Why?

2nd/ You should be for submitting to it in the 1st place


31 posted on 12/10/2017 9:07:12 AM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

The most incriminating circumstantial evidence would be if any of the researchers fiddling around with people’s DNA were educated in our public school system.


32 posted on 12/10/2017 9:07:51 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: magua

LOL. Easy boy!


33 posted on 12/10/2017 9:08:27 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: Enlightened1

Test Agencies intentionally screwing up results?

That doesn’t even make sense. That revelation would close them down by opening them up to massive litigation.

It might be conceivable that a tech or two would mess with results.

Unless Ancestry.com and similar groups are using home basement labs ...


34 posted on 12/10/2017 9:10:55 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Enlightened1

It didn’t screw with me!

I now put African-American on my job applications and whenever my kids take a test, they will do so as part African-American.

That will fix the race-normers.

It’s less than 1%, but at what point do you get cut out of all those African American privileges?


35 posted on 12/10/2017 9:11:05 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Enlightened1

This is why I haven’t done one of these tests. There are no trust controls in place. They’ll tell you just about anything.


36 posted on 12/10/2017 9:11:23 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: Enlightened1

Fake News. Click bait.


37 posted on 12/10/2017 9:13:04 AM PST by anton
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To: Enlightened1

Fraud is a criminal act as I recall.


38 posted on 12/10/2017 9:13:20 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: rockrr
It would be hilarious if Fauxahontas were to seek genetic counseling to prove her Indian heritage only to find she’s more Zulu Pygmy Cannibal than Cherokee.

There, fixed it for you.

39 posted on 12/10/2017 9:14:02 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Enlightened1

I was having a discussion about this a couple weeks ago.

Ancestry’s long YouTube ads really play to the emotional appeal of discovering DNA secrets, all presented as decoded mysteries of the universe.

Riiight... and the way to independently cross check and validate this information is? The ads remind me that who matters is who counts the votes.

Digging up birth records, immigration documents, marriage certificates, old newpaper articles, and so on can only go back so far, but they provide a solid way to investigate actual lineage and histories. Multiple independent sources to root through.

How are these tests any different than a media monopoly. The commercials tell me that the clowns running the show are running a show, which means their integrity is suspect at best, and therefore the real DNA data they collect is likely available for sale to the highest bidder.

Or it has all been a front from the get-go. There are those who say, “Well if the government wanted my DNA it already has it or can get it whenever I will need a lab test”.

I’ll keep my doors locked anyway. Same reason I lock my luggage, and use non TSA-friendly locks. Let them have to break in. Just because people think governmant has all the data, doesn’t mean it does. I’ve seen the efficiency of bureaucrats.


40 posted on 12/10/2017 9:14:16 AM PST by Ezekiel (All who mourn(ed!) the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
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