FDA orders 23andMe, backed by Google, to halt sales of DNA test service

Your argument is essentially that only rich people should have any access to across the board genetic testing, and that anyone who isn’t rich enough to be able to afford a non-insurance covered doctor visit and a few thousands dollars worth of testing needs to fuck off. You either get cheap testing that is covered in disclaimers saying that no, you really need to talk to a doctor if you find anything scary and accept that there might be some false positives in addition to the actual positives, or you just accept that if you don’t have the gobs of cash to hire a doctor and pay inflated lab fees then fuck off.

I personally will happily take the cheap testing. If I get back an OMG YOUR ARE GOING TO DIE result, I’ll make a doctors appointment and start hemorrhaging the money it takes to get a more professional opinion. As long as it is smeared in disclaimers, it should be my right to take a non-FDA approved non-invasive test that might not be perfect, rather being told to fuck off until I have a few thousand dollars to spare.

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