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I knew they would do something like this when I used 23andMe. I have no problem with it at all. If my DNA helps people well after my death, I'm totally fine wit
by partiallypro 7y ago
I knew they would do something like this when I used 23andMe. I have no problem with it at all. If my DNA helps people well after my death, I'm totally fine with it.
- vallode 7y agoMy main issue here would be the fact the data is being sold to a private pharma company. The 'help' you are talking about might come at a huge cost, this simply helps them develop ever more expensive drugs because they are the only ones holding the data.
- asdff 7y agoprivate pharma companies can already get access to confidential patient information during clinical trials. these protections are established and robust.
- ecf 7y agoThe problem is that you’re not just selling your DNA. You’re selling the DNA of everyone in your entire family. Do you have their consent? Because I’d be really, really pissed off if I found my sister or anytime in my family did this test.
- shadowgovt 7y agoYou don't own your sister's DNA; you don't get to tell her what she does with it.
- wasdfff 7y ago23 and me isnt sequencing anyones DNA...
- mattr47 7y agoThat is not they way the courts see it I believe. My DNA is mine to do with as I please.
- leshow 7y agoIf by "help" you mean, make a pharmaceutical company potentially millions or even billions of dollars, then sure.
- wasdfff 7y agoAnd how did they make billions? By helping patients.
- cwkoss 7y agoConversely, the pharma company could identify a population that for which other treatments are ineffective, and use that data to justify raising price of their monopoly lifesaving treatment. Pharma industry is in the business of profiting off disease, helping is a side effect and marketing line.
- damnlies 7y agoBy bankrupting people, actually, and artificially charging as much as possible. God, it's like someone trained a Markov generator on Ayn Rand novels and PG essays.
- leshow 7y agoThey make money by selling pharmaceuticals. There's a difference.
- drusepth 7y agoIf a pharmaceutical company coming up with a cure for some of the worst currently-incurable diseases known to man makes them potentially millions or even billions of dollars, that seems like a win-win for everyone.
- leshow 7y agoWow a "cure". Wouldn't that be nice. It's equally likely it could be used to develop a super expensive treatment of questionable effectiveness.
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