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23andMe is such a bizarre service to me. I have absolutely no desire to find out the details of some long lost cousin I don’t know, or know there is a chance I’
by iamleppert 3y ago
23andMe is such a bizarre service to me. I have absolutely no desire to find out the details of some long lost cousin I don’t know, or know there is a chance I’m 2% Viking. Or have the chance to develop some weird kind of cancer because some post doc working in a papermill published a paper.
I would have never guessed people would be interested in such useless information.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoAs the family genealogist, I completely agree. 23andMe had such minimal utility in comparison to the first service where I tested. At most, it corroborated and confirmed what I already knew and had been told. Also I identified the strongest possible genetic match, a person who hadn't tested elsewhere. But 23andMe's cutesy haplogroup classifications, their faux historical narratives, the ridiculous litany of "health conditions" they warn me about, it's bunk, 100% bunk. Plus, no medical professional will accept this data as diagnostic, so why bother?