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I’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

• resters 3y ago
  No, 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.