The sheep implicitly trust their government. They do not understand that they are in bed with Big Industry -- in fact they ARE Big Industry b/c of the "revolvin

The sheep implicitly trust their government. They do not understand that they are in bed with Big Industry -- in fact they ARE Big Industry b/c of the "revolving door". So here's the real deal. The FDA has basically made up a rule that a medical device can only do one test (its a little more complicated than that but that's the gist of it). That's why if you look at the X-Prize finalists they aren't really "tricorders" at all. Each test has a separate component. Of course, even that probably won't be good enough and neither of these will see the light of day. The same thing goes for what happened to 23&Me. The official statement from the FDA was "they were concerned that people would self-diagnose". Heaven forbid people should do such a thing in a free country! But what it really boils down to is the huge $$$ made on tests for individual genes -- each of which, I've read, can cost $1,000+ w/o insurance. If we could just do our whole genome in one fell swoop, think of all the money the industry would loose.