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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 think this is fake news - I’ve run this on me an my wife and can confirm it didn’t happen at 23&me.

Consider the source and comment on their history before posting.


41 posted on 12/10/2017 9:14:56 AM PST by paulk ( If one fails to learn self discipline, Don't worry; there will be others to boss you around. -kps)
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To: 2banana
But now think of all those minority only scholarships, jobs, and set asides that JUST OPENED UP!

This has me thinking. What's stopping anyone from claiming minority status? I don't believe there's any actual scientific, genetic verification involved.

This will be a growing issue as an increasing number of Americans marry outside their race. I have a cousin who is a ginger. She had a child with a light-skinned black man and her now teenage daughter looks absolutely white.

42 posted on 12/10/2017 9:16:18 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“What a horribly written article...”

I like the way you read - critically. Even something that may be supporting your side.

Many of us are so eager to prove the “other side” wrong that we often fall prey to the fake news dished out by our side.


43 posted on 12/10/2017 9:16:57 AM PST by aquila48 (Bookmark)
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To: Cowboy Bob
I sense a class action lawsuit!

My sister had one of these bogus DNA tests run. It seemed to have missed our maternal great grand mother who was 1/2 native American.

44 posted on 12/10/2017 9:17:00 AM PST by dearolddad
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To: Enlightened1

Lying comes to leftists as easy as breathing and just as natural.

I’ve come to the conclusion leftists have no moral compass, no sense of right and wrong; only the agenda matters, and possibly for many; no conscience.


45 posted on 12/10/2017 9:18:39 AM PST by Boomer (Leftism is a Cancer on society)
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To: Enlightened1; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

not too sure about this but it’s funny...


46 posted on 12/10/2017 9:18:50 AM PST by bitt (press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally)
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To: magua
"I have a good grip on my gender."

Keep that up and you'll go blind!

47 posted on 12/10/2017 9:20:30 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: magua

>I have a good grip on my gender.

Easy there now


48 posted on 12/10/2017 9:21:21 AM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Yes. Yes it is.

This is sad.

Will a story from Mad be next?


49 posted on 12/10/2017 9:23:19 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: magua

“I have a good grip on my gender.”

That can be bad for your eyesight.


50 posted on 12/10/2017 9:26:27 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

One ‘investigative reporter’ got triplets to submit their DNA. Came back with 3 different results !!!


51 posted on 12/10/2017 9:27:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles (uen)
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To: Enlightened1

All liberals are liars?

Sure seems that way...


52 posted on 12/10/2017 9:35:28 AM PST by GOPJ (Katie Couric - please do a 'special' on NBC women who 'put out' to move up the corporate ladder...)
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To: Enlightened1

Don’t these companies really exist to get people to volunteer into a DNA database?


53 posted on 12/10/2017 9:36:44 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (I told you so)
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To: Religion and Politics

Religion and Politics wrote: “Pocahontas Warren better submit to all of these fake services to see if she can hit up on having Cherokee ancestry.”

The Tribes do not accept genetic testing as proof of Indian Ancestry.


54 posted on 12/10/2017 9:37:40 AM PST by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: Enlightened1

Is there a “Racist” Gene I was unaware of?


55 posted on 12/10/2017 9:38:09 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Enlightened1

My family and I got the same results from Ancestry.com and 23andme.


56 posted on 12/10/2017 9:38:27 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: JimRed
How do they decide which whites are racists that need to be screwed with?

Don't you know they've already solved that problem?

They've simply declared all white people racist! Problem Solved!
57 posted on 12/10/2017 9:40:10 AM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: magua

>>>I have a good grip on my gender<<<

I prefer a Member of the opposite Gender having a good grip on my...

I feel like writing a Country Song now.


58 posted on 12/10/2017 9:40:44 AM PST by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Enlightened1


All this does not matter.

The 'out of africa' theory is endangered,

Lucy (5 mil years old) was the reference.
Now a 10 mil years old evidence from Europe has been found.
the new Discovery recently published :....
....Archaeology fossil teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history
They most closely resemble those belonging to the early hominin skeletons of Lucy, famously discovered in Ethiopia.
But these new teeth, found in a German town near Mainz, are at least 4 million years older than the African skeletons, which has scientists so puzzled they held off publishing for a year....



59 posted on 12/10/2017 9:43:12 AM PST by Koracan
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To: Enlightened1; All

http://www.cracked.com/terms-and-conditions.html

It appears to be BS...


60 posted on 12/10/2017 9:50:01 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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