>The people who get incorrect results and who then go and...
From a $100 test? I hope not. In my father's case, he wears sun block now. What he didn't do was run out and have every mole on his body removed because he's at greater risk of Melenoma.
>Just the stress of "shadows" is considerable.
I lived with that stress for a few months. I'll admit it was in the back of my mind, but I was fine.
Afterwards I was telling a friend about the ordeal and he actually said "Man, is there anything worse than being told you have something terrible wrong with you, living with that, then finding out it was a false alarm". Uhm, yeah. How about finding out it wasn't?
Look at Morgellon's; Mercury Chelation; Anti-vaccination; etc etc etc.
There are very many people willing to sell tests, and very many people happy to sell quack cures based on those tests. (I'm not saying that 23andMe are quacks!)
> "Man, is there anything worse than being told you have something terrible wrong with you, living with that, then finding out it was a false alarm". Uhm, yeah. How about finding out it wasn't?
That's happened to a few people. You get told you're HIV+ (in the late 90s, when this means it's a death sentence.) You lose your job (because people are arseholes), you stop showing your 8 year old son affection (because you're scared of the infection), you have unprotected sex with people with HIV (you're already +, so what does it matter?) and then you get told that there was a mistake with the original test and you're actually negative.
From a $100 test? I hope not. In my father's case, he wears sun block now. What he didn't do was run out and have every mole on his body removed because he's at greater risk of Melenoma.
>Just the stress of "shadows" is considerable.
I lived with that stress for a few months. I'll admit it was in the back of my mind, but I was fine.
Afterwards I was telling a friend about the ordeal and he actually said "Man, is there anything worse than being told you have something terrible wrong with you, living with that, then finding out it was a false alarm". Uhm, yeah. How about finding out it wasn't?