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

[JerryE]

@anon67050589

Generally speaking, posters on BB are more tech savvy than average. If you spent any time reading the threads at 23andMe, you would quickly despair for the human race. A significant number of the new customers brought in by the new advertising (promising medical diagnoses) DO in fact think they’ve been diagnosed. They get even the most basic genetic concepts entirely wrong, and do not seem capable of doing basic research to help themselves understand. The worst of the internet? Imagine them all getting DNA tests at 23andMe and then imagine what the cacaphony would sound like…does sound like.

So does this mean that I should quietly crawl off to the nursing home and die, rather than making use of 23andMe data in ways that offend the FDA, just because many others do not understand their DNA? Does this mean that I should not have used treatments that have kept me very healthy, but were not FDA approved, just because others do not understand how to use PubMed and other sources to research their own best medical treatments?

Jerry Emanuelson