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Oddly, 23andme adopted an extremely cautious, risk-averse strategy with respect to providing "health information". The result of this is that many other servic
by resters 3y ago
Oddly, 23andme adopted an extremely cautious, risk-averse strategy with respect to providing "health information". The result of this is that many other services became a more interesting/entertaining source of personalized health information based on genetic data (often 23andme raw data extracted and fed into the other system).
I get new updated health information from 23andme perhaps 2 times per year. It's mind boggling to imagine that with all the research being done that is all that makes the cut as interesting and trsutworthy enough for 23andme to tell me about it.
In other words, a majorly failed content strategy based on fear of being shut down for providing insufficiently vetted health info.
Meanwhile, someone created multiple accounts and the ancestry results didn't match even when collected from the same person.
- numbsafari 3y agoI’m confused… you want more health recommendations from a service whose most basic scientific offering you also consider junk? I have some pills for you. Just for you, mind you. Special made. Sign up for this subscription and we’ll send you a new supply each day…
- resters 3y agoNo, but I would prefer greater transparency about the accuracy of the analysis and also greater transparency about the reliability (or unreliability) of any health recommendations based on research. I'm not looking for a single source of authority and I will not be disappointed if an updated "chip" or study reverses a previous recommendation/insight. 23andme had a blog post about the MTHFR gene and why they don't include it. I'm not there to read the blog I want to know interesting things about my own genetics, even if what is interesting is that they don't think it matters! This is just bad content strategy even if it's justifiable from a "healthcare" perspective. Why so much worry about a customer getting the wrong impression from one of the health reports? Seems a bit absurd. How much money did it cost to put in place all the warnings about the potentially upsetting impact of various mutations. I wish that 23andme had focused on being an entertaining way for people to discover more interesting stuff about themselves, rather than a rarefied place where only the most well-vetted research is acknowledged to exist.
- ErikBjare 3y agoThe FDA provided ample threats regarding their health claims. No wonder this is how it ended up.