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Does everyone remember Theranos? Aka the billion dollar company built on the shaky basis of being able to do a full blood test on demand from a single drop of y
by michaelbuckbee 7y ago
Does everyone remember Theranos? Aka the billion dollar company built on the shaky basis of being able to do a full blood test on demand from a single drop of your blood?
The first 2/3 of this article describe the unstable foundation of genetic testing for depression and the last 1/3 the frightening consequences. It really starts at "Third, antidepressant pharmacogenomic testing." and ends with this brutal conclusion:
"But I think we should take a second to remember that yes, this is really bad. That this is a rare case where methodological improvements allowed a conclusive test of a popular hypothesis, and it failed badly. How many other cases like this are there, where there’s no geneticist with a 600,000 person sample size to check if it’s true or not? How many of our scientific edifices are built on air? How many useless products are out there under the guise of good science? We still don’t know."