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FDA crackdown

The timing of things, people, and messages crossing my path is lately nothing short of bizarre.

While reading online news today, I came across this:

Why is the FDA cracking down on home genetic tests?

The article even uses, as example, the 23andme site where my biological second cousin just found me.

While I don’t totally disagree with what they’re saying, the first thing for which I should declare my gratitude this Thanksgiving is that I got in on the site before they shut it down.  It seems to me that the FDA is trying to “protect” us from information – to “protect” people from themselves, from our evident collective stupidity.

And the clock strikes 13.

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