youtu.be/26-G2sHU5-g

Allegedly, somewhere in our family tree on my grandmother's side, we were part Jewish. This is relevant only because I was always told not to give up anthropometric data because "you never know when they're going to get out the meat hooks and go looking for people to kill".

I mean, I can think of plenty of reasons I could end up on a list, inherent red-headed-step-child energy is a big one. But I grew up being told other people were always a hair's breadth from turning into Nazis again, because it's just something people do for some reason. (Also learned the hard way via the other side of the family that was a great example of that concept)

As a result, I never thought commercial DNA testing was remotely good. After learning more about early eugenics scams to get people's data, even less so.

Recommended reading:

Control by Adam Rutherford

Anyway, PSA, don't give strangers your DNA

#DrMike #23andMe #DNA #Scam #DataPrivacy

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I've always felt that what DNA matching means is that you were foolish enough to give your genetic record to a third party where it will eventually be made public. Unless your doctor orders it for diagnostic purposes and they keep the data, of course.

All that #23andme data is going to go somewhere out of their customers' control.

Who cares if you are (allegedly) 2 pct. [Insert ethnicity here]?

#dnatesting #privacy