Truth: A Love Story

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Post by onuralp » Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 10:21 PM UTC

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Post by sah2ed » Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 7:38 PM UTC

Reminds of a story from 5 years ago [0] about a biologist that caused his parents to get divorced after he shared the results of his genetic testing.

His lesson: 23andMe kits are essentially an advanced form of paternity testing.

[0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...

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Post by NotSammyHagar » Sun, Jun 16, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

sah2ed wrote: post #2

Reminds of a story from 5 years ago [0] about a biologist that caused his parents to get divorced after he shared the results of his genetic testing. His lesson: 23andMe kits are essentially an advanced form of paternity testing. [0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...

I have thought of this possibility if I ever did genetic testing, finding out about different parentage could be shocking. It would be interesting to know about. I also shudder at the fact that it's yet another way for the government to track everyone. Probably almost everyone has enough other people already sequenced that we have almost total coverage already.

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Post by RyJones » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 1:03 AM UTC

I found a sister this way. We both happened to move to the West coast; about two hours drive apart. 10/10 would do again

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Post by nixarian » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 2:03 AM UTC

Paternity testing should be mandatory at the birth of the child. Adultery is socially destabilizing, and should be discouraged.

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Post by jacobush » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 10:20 AM UTC

So beautifully written

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Post by kanaba » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 3:29 PM UTC

nixarian wrote: post #5

Paternity testing should be mandatory at the birth of the child. Adultery is socially destabilizing, and should be discouraged.

Awareness of adultery seems to be the societally-destabilizing part of that concept.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 17, 2019, 3:35 PM UTC

sah2ed wrote: post #2

Reminds of a story from 5 years ago [0] about a biologist that caused his parents to get divorced after he shared the results of his genetic testing. His lesson: 23andMe kits are essentially an advanced form of paternity testing. [0]: https://www.vox.com/2014/9/9/5975653/with-genetic-testing-i-...

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