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Recommendation: Move offshore and start accepting Bitcoin.

We did 23andme a few years ago. No big surprises but it was still interesting.

Did this a few years ago too. I was surprised at a few of their findings because they felt a bit odd at the time, but I didn't think it was as fraudulent as it's sounding to be.

The FDA is pure evil. They are in bed with Monsanto. Both should cease to exist completely as soon as possible.

There's my opinion.

From what I've heard, 23andMe has been making claims about the accuracy of their tests, for which they've failed to provide any evidence despite being given years to do so.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=247220418

I used 23andMe for analysis of my saliva. The DNA is mine, what I choose to do with the information is my choice alone. Same as palm reading and seeing a psychic (if that's what you're into), or peeing into a cup - I can act on the information or not, my choice. If the FDA is so worried about and more importantly has time and money to spend engaging this company on the possible health effects of users who act on the information, I'd say their priorities are fucked up or at least their motivation is unclear.

Point of contrast - here's another product that can possibly cause harm, but were's the cease and desist for this one? I can go down to the corner store and buy a known to be addictive product, with labels that indicate "Smoking Kills", but the tobacco companies are still free to sell it and go about their business. The accuracy of the tests conducted on addiction, health effects etc. related to tobacco are still in debate. You know "We're still working on it". We choose whether we want to use this product, even though it doesn't only put the users life at risk (presumably) but also those around the user (presumably), same as we choose what do with 23andMe reports. However, I'd wager the known risks and costs associated with allowing tobacco use to continue is orders of magnitude higher than it ever will be for the 400,000 or so customers that have used 23andMe to sequence a portion of our genome. Why don't we work on the hard & obvious problem first?

Tempest in a tea cup.

ps. I wonder what the ulterior motive is? Perhaps the FDA is in cahoots with Monsanto in planning copyright on specific genetic sequences for humans, as they do now for crops. Hmmm... they could call it the Soylent Green experiment.