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> Certainly DNA sequencing for health has been a really mixed bag. Ah, the old why bother since it's a "mixed bag" argument. If it wasn't a mixed bag I'd be re
by xipho 5y ago
> Certainly DNA sequencing for health has been a really mixed bag.
Ah, the old why bother since it's a "mixed bag" argument. If it wasn't a mixed bag I'd be really worried, as someone has some pretty good snake oil.
I vaguely recall something about sequencing and its role in creating a vaciine that turned out to be pretty useful, something recent maybe?
- dekhn 5y agoI don't have a complaint about sequencing that leads to vaccines. That's what sequencing is for. What i'm troubled by is the projects that sequence a million people, using $1B to do so, and then just dump a bunch of genomes with some hand-wavy claims about how it's going to cure cancer. The costs here are rathre significant, but the health outcomes are not.