Outrageous! Next you're gonna tell me my tax money is used to finance research too!
No outrage here. I don't give the slightest shit what they do. I'm just saying what it is.
They would have to do know the intelligence of each of the 10 million people being sampled; or their beauty, etc. They don't know that from looking at DNA alone, any more than they already have markers for.
The links you screenshotted from the desktop site appears as just a "How it works" link. You have to click and it loads a new page. It doesn't indicate it explains the profits from the DNA health test.
Pretty much.
Scroll farther down the menu.
I'm being cheeky for effect, but I don't know why an A.I. couldn't put together new, unique DNA in a similar way to how they can generate new, unique human faces for profile pics for boys. (Edit: this is supposed to say 'bots' lol)
That's true. I haven't done one of these but I imagined they had some sort of questionnaire? My brother did this one or ancestry and it asked so many questions that I doubted his results came from the DNA and not the survey.
You literally have to agree quite explicitly to opting in to research, and fill out a survey in order to participate.. and this chance to participate in research is one part of the marketing of the product, right on the web site.
???? There is nothing to see.
Cool. So you had no idea what you were taking about. Good.
I don't think people are against research and science, but rather the business model of selling people a test that can then be leveraged again for profit in big pharma. It's very different than someone enticing you with participating in a study or paid research from the start. This kit has probably been gifted and bought by many people who saw their commercials and ads that exclusively entice with promise of personalized health revelations.
Of course. Knee jerk anti-corporatism at all costs, despite the company informing the consumer at the point of transaction of their research goals, no thought to the compound itself, or patients that can benefit from cutting edge research that only a database like this could produce.
You can do all of that and opt out of research, I believe the default is opt out.
But what about "making helpful medicines for people that cost millions of dollars that we can use as evidence we're not evil while selling your data to insurance companies?"
And how might these people afford said medicines when the company is only out to highly profit?
Might as well not try then, you're right. Medical advancements are too expensive and scary.
Health care. It's not pharma companies' fault that the U.S. health care sucks.
