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To be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predispos
by neural_thing 7y ago
To be fair, ubiome is a fraud, and (anecdote) 23andme made a mistake in reading my genome and their data showed that I had an incredibly deadly cancer predisposition (Li-Fraumeni), which a reputable medical lab showed to be false.
- wolco 7y agoubiome is a ycombinator company. Why would you call them a fraud. I've done a number of tests over a period after antiobiotics and I definately saw the change into diversity correlate with the foods I introduced.
- detaro 7y agoThey've been raided by the FBI for insurance fraud, they reportedly conducted "tests" using samples that hadn't been stored properly, their CEOs/founders have resigned, they've let half their staff go recently and currently are not capable of actually doing testing ... That's not saying that they never produced useful data, but ...
- baby 7y agoYou'd be surprised how many scams Ycombinator accepts. Quantstamp cough cough.