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LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
SHOULD YOU TAKE A HOME DNA TEST?
Lowell Ponte Slams Potential for Mis-Use of Personal Data
WND, November 25, 2018
URL: https://www.wnd.com/2018/11/should-you-take-a-home-dna-test/
“Know thyself,” advised the ancient Greek oracle at Delphi, whose Delphic prophecies sometimes misled those seeking guidance and destroyed them.
Today, self-knowledge comes in a box from companies such as Ancestry.com or 23andMe. Send them a bit of saliva from swabbing the inside of your cheek, and they will discern from your DNA, your genetic blueprint, your ancestral past and – coming soon – your health future.
I received such a test kit as an early holiday gift, but thus far I have not decided whether to bare my personal DNA to this modern oracle. Peter J. Pitts, president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, recently offered five reasons not to let curiosity lure us into taking such tests:
Our genes are remarkably complex, especially when influenced by the transformative factors of epigenetics. One scientist discovered a gene mutation associated with dying from heart attack around age 40. He then, at age 40, discovered that his own DNA carried this mutation. He spent a year worrying himself almost to death before colleagues told him his prediction was right – but only when this mutation was accompanied by two other mutations, neither of which his DNA had.
Hackers can rob commercial databases even more easily than they can loot bank accounts. Thieves can steal your valuable DNA information – which, unlike a credit card number or password, can never be changed.
Your DNA information could be sold to the highest bidder by companies that have lucrative data-sharing contracts with pharmaceutical giants. “23andMe has a $300 million deal with GlaxoSmithKline,” writes Pitts, “And the biggest buyer of Ancestry’s data is Calico Life Sciences, a biotech company bankrolled by Silicon Valley billionaires.”
Your genetic information is not anonymous, warns Pitts. Even though it would be shared without your name attached, it carries enough information to make figuring out who you are potentially easy.
Your genetic data can be used against you. Insurance companies might charge you much more if your genes pointed to the risk of death or illness at a young age. A potential employer might reject hiring you for the same reason.
With Harvard University discriminating against Asian-American student applicants, could DNA be used to give reality to the artificial construct we call “race” in school admission and job hiring quotas? (A concocted DNA identity could replace today’s tendency to let people choose their own racial, gender, and other identity factors.)
Big Brother also wants your genes, according to Investor’s Business Daily. The new “All of Us” research program at the National Institutes of Health is building a data bank of DNA from more than a million Americans.
And once your DNA is data-banked – whether by a p...