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Obsessed with Our DNA: The Rise and Fall of 23andMe
The High Wire ^

Posted on 05/23/2024 1:29:44 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe

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To: Tench_Coxe

I’d always wondered how much ‘genetic testing’ they were really doing? I was always skeptical as I always am anyway of everything I hear on TV... Those commercials where one customer says “I found out I was related to ‘Ben Franklin’” or some such nonsense, was when I realized they were bogus as all hell.


61 posted on 05/23/2024 11:01:31 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Tench_Coxe

👍💯👍


62 posted on 05/24/2024 1:47:49 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (loose lips sink ships)
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To: Fido969

you are correct about weird results iv come to a conclusion that its a ever changing algo.

a family member took the
ancestry.com &its posted to see but I worry sbout MY privacy as being related to this family member.

i saw thru this grom the very beginning. You may hidr the results but they are perma ently tecorded & stored in bum eff egypt


63 posted on 05/24/2024 1:53:45 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (loose lips sink ships)
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To: exnavy

its enough knowing that everything you do on the ‘ net is saved and also your telephone calls and voiceprint

one thing i have never done
is post my picture. Im happy with that but it doesnt help much when i visit a personals site.


64 posted on 05/24/2024 1:57:50 AM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns (loose lips sink ships)
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To: Prince Caspian
What do you perceive as being the risk to an individual by providing a DNA sample for use in research? How does that come back to potentially harm me? Other than simply valuing my privacy.

Tend to agree with you wholeheartedly.

It has proven to be an invaluable tool to cracking even decades-old "Cold Cases"...where it used to be that only convicted felons were compiled in a database as a tool to bringing the guilty to justice.

65 posted on 05/24/2024 2:35:56 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Surrounded_too

Ha, (yikes) that potential is there.

Nothing would surprise me anymore.


66 posted on 05/24/2024 5:36:30 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Surrounded_too

(Something like this was tried in the 1930s somewhere or other.)

I did Nazi that coming.


67 posted on 05/24/2024 5:38:01 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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68 posted on 05/24/2024 7:23:05 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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