> And for some reason you think this is different from any other field? Yes, actually. If we must really flog a tortured analogy: This is not like going to you

> And for some reason you think this is different from any other field? Yes, actually. If we must really flog a tortured analogy: This is not like going to your local mechanic friend and asking for car buying advice. It's more like this guy named Karl Benz comes and tells you he's got a great new invention called the internal combustion engine and you should definitely buy it. So you go to your friend the steam engine mechanic and ask him for advice. Sure, he understands the principles, maybe, but this is something completely new! If you must appeal to authority, consider you have two experts in this thread telling you that even they think the topic is too complex to draw useful conclusions. If you don't trust random people on the internet (not that I blame you), then go to the source. From the article: There are valid scientific reasons for different estimates from different companies, such as: companies employ slightly different statistical models for making risk estimates; companies establish different criteria for the inclusion of associations in their reports; new associations are being discovered at a faster rate than companies’ development cycles; companies may test for an imperfectly overlapping set of genetic variants for reasons including the ability of different genotyping technologies to assay certain variants. To be clear, this is not a case of Car and Driver favoring German engineering but JD Powers always skewing towards American manufacturers (completely contrived example, BTW). In this case the statistical models are the science, not just some interpretation of the science. This field is young. Too young. This money and effort would be better spent on basic research. > The market seems to handle this just fine. No, the market gives us homeopathy and snake-oil salesmen. Humans, especially when confronted with areas in which they are not knowledgeable, can be surprisingly irrational!