TheOneWithAReallyLongName on Nostr: I don't think it's a matter of sensitivity. I think it's a matter of practicality. ...
I don't think it's a matter of sensitivity. I think it's a matter of practicality. Could one DNA company be hiding stuff? Certainly. A few? Probably. All of them? No way, too big a conspiracy. You don't just have to worry about 23andMe and the 1-2 other public testing for ancestry companies. There's tons of DNA testing done in the medical field, and doctors make actual judgments for treatment based on those test results. If the DNA reports were inaccurate, it would vastly complicate treatment for certain conditions, particularly genetic ones. It's also used extensively in medical research, where thousands and thousands of researchers are using genetic data to yield actual working treatments. With how widespread use of genetic information is, I don't see it as feasible to hide this if it was true. Maybe if genetic testing was extremely restricted and only a handful of entities were capable of it, but it's way too widespread to keep a whole ass extra species hidden among us.
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